Simmons10-1 at 2015 World Men's Curling Championship

Calgary, Canada

SKIP
Pat
Simmons

Third
John
Morris

Second
Carter
Rycroft

Lead
Nolan
Thiessen

Games:	14
Record:	11W - 3L
PF/G:	8.03
PA/G:	5.59
Hammer Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Efficiency:	0.25

Pat Simmons (Calgary, CAN) finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Simmons defeated John Shuster (Duluth, USA) 11-10, then won 7-4 against Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN) and 9-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Simmons won 11-2 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE), then won 9-3 against Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS) and 7-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Simmons went on to lose 9-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Simmons responded with a 8-4 win over Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI). Simmons won 7-1 against Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO), then won 6-5 against Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN) and 7-6 against Joel Retornaz (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

Simmons earned 30.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the World Men's Curling Championship, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 4th place overall with 301.195 total points. Simmons ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 108.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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