Do average shot times increase as a tournament progresses?

Hi Does the overall average shot time increase as a tournament progresses? I would have thought that in the later rounds there would naturally be the better players remaining and shots would be more carefully planned increasing times taken. I haven’t seen any stats for tournaments with average shot times per round. Is this something that’s captured? It’s to settle a debate as I thought the times would naturally increase by round but brother dismissed this theory. All thoughts welcome

Yes i would have thought so, although i suspect there are more bigger breaks usually as well in the latter stages which would decrease shot time.

Trouble is snooker is not very good at publishing official statistics, even simple things like frame and match times arent usually teleased even though WST records it all electronically.

If statistics were published all sorts of analyses could be done.

Done manually, so could be some errors.

Final: Selby 27.8, Murphy 25.9

Semi-final: Bingham 28.9, Selby 28.6, Wilson 27.2, Murphy 23.8

QF: McGill 27.1, Bingham 26, Williams 20, Selby 24.3, Robertson 26.5, Wilson 26.4, Murphy 22.5, Trump 22.6

2nd R: O'Sullivan 18.8, McGill 23.8, Bingham 24.8, Jones 25.4, Higgins 24.3, Williams 19, Allen 27.3, Selby 25.5, Robertson 23.9, Lisowski 22.1, Hawkins 25.5, Wilson 26.5, Murphy 21.7, Bingtao 28, Gilbert 27.5, Trump 21.1

1st R: O'Sullivan 18.3, Joyce 27.1, McGill 24.5, Walden 23.3, Junhui 24.4, Bingham 25.4, Maguire 27.2, Jones 24.9, Higgins 25.2, Pengfei 27.2, Williams 18.1, Craigie 23, Allen 20.7, Haotian 25.5, Selby 24.2, Maflin 24.2, Robertson 22.6, Wenbo 27.8, Lisowski 22.1, Carter 27.5, Hawkins 22.5, Selt 28.8, Wilson 26.5, Gary Wilson 25.7, Murphy 23.1, Davis 24, Bingtao 25.8, Gould 24.8, Gilbert 24.4, Wakelin 28.9, Trump 18.9, Highfield 21.8
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Semi-finalists progression
Bingham 25.4 > 24.8 > 26 > 28.9
Wilson 26.5 > 26.5 > 26.4 > 27.2
Murphy 23.1 > 21.7 > 22.5 > 23.8 >> 25.9 so far
Selby 24.2 > 25.5 > 24.3 > 28.6 >> 27.8 so far

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Average per round
1st round 24.3
2nd round 24.1
QF 24.4
SF 27.1
F 26.9