🏆 Eddy Merckx — The Iceman’s Year of Control
- Carom World
- Nov 25
- 3 min read
2025 was one of those years where Eddy Merckx walked into every event like a guy who already knew the final score. Cold face, warm hands, laser-focused — like a striker who doesn’t need ten chances to bury the ball. One look at his graph and you can see it: steady climbs, clutch spikes, and the kind of consistency only veterans with ice in their veins can deliver.
📈 His 2025 ELO Curve — Rising Like a Top Seed
In the first chart (2025 only), Merckx plays the season like a dude leveling up after every stage of a video game:
Colombia → Vietnam → Turkey: he starts around the 1600s and punches up into the 1700s, keeping that cool, controlled tempo.
Portugal → Belgium (World Championship): he hits his season peak, breaking into the 1770–1780 zone, the kind of ELO swing you only get when you’re not just winning — you're dominating.
Korea 2025: he closes the year pushing past 1800, showing he finished stronger than he started… classic Iceman style.
It’s the graph of a guy who doesn’t lose momentum — he accumulates it.
📚 His 2019–2025 Career ELO — The Long Climb of a Veteran
The full-career ELO graph tells the long story — the whole journey and why Eddy Merckx is one of the best player in the 3 cushion billiards History.
Back in the mid of 2019 climbs into the 1700s between 2020–2022 — steady, like a player who keeps hitting doubles even on bad nights.
Peaks around 1800+ around 2022–2023 — that’s when his form gets scary.
Drops slightly in 2024 and then rockets back in 2025 — like a veteran striker rediscovering his scoring boots.
By the time he hits Korea 2025, his ELO is the chart equivalent of a flex: cold, sharp, mature.
📊 The Stat Sheet — Where the Numbers Speak Like a Scoreboard
From your comparison table, 2025 shows exactly why the nickname Iceman fits:
🧊 2025 vs 2024 — A Player Leveling Up
Stat | 2024 | 2025 | Improvement |
Average | 1.798 | 1.922 | +0.124 |
Points Per Game | 40.14 | 42.17 | +2.03 |
Points Against Per Game | 35.00 | 33.53 | -1.47 |
Difference | 5.14 | 8.64 | +3.50 |
Record | 23–14 | 27–9 | More wins, fewer losses |
That’s the kind of jump you usually only see when a talented rookie becomes a seasoned star. But here it’s coming from a veteran who already knows every angle, every rail, every nerve-break move.
What stands out:
His Points Against per Game dropped, like a defender who suddenly stops letting anything past.
His Points Scored went up, like a striker hitting the net on every counterattack.
His win rate jumped, the clearest sign he was cooking opponents all year.
2025 wasn’t luck — the numbers show control, rhythm, and experience.
🏆 The Verdict — The Iceman’s Year of Control
2025 was the kind of season where Eddy Merckx reminded the billiards world why he’s still a boss in the room. His ELO curve looks like a top seed. His stats jump looks like a player entering a new gear. And his wins show he didn’t pad numbers — he took out heavy hitters.
If 2025 were a sports season, he’d be that veteran forward everyone doubted… until he dominated.
And as always — he did it with that trademark calm: no panic, no noise, just pure ice.
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