What does core torque mean?  I thought the higher the rating the sharper or harder the ball hooked and the lower the rating to smoother the ball reaction was.  According to the ebonite digitrax info I beleive I am wrong in my assumption.
  Here is an example-  The new Cell pearl has a core torque rating of 7.5 which is the highest rating I have ever seen.  According to the digitrax info the hook power (speed/strength of movement towards the pocket) is only 85.83 for cranker.  A few months back the AMF code had a torque rating of only 6.5 but the digitrax info said the hook power was 104 for cranker which is the highest I had seen.  So what does the core torque really mean?
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In the old BTM, Core Torque used to mean exactly what you said and thought:
the higher the number, the more skid/flip (hockey stick shape) the breakpoint was. The lower the number the more even and arc-like it was (Think sanded urethane ball path). 4-5 was urethane like hook. 6.5, at that time the highest number, was a skid/flip pearl resin. Today 5.5 seems ot be the low number and a few balls are as high as the Cell Pearl's 7.5 (Big Shot, Fired-Up, Big-R-Bang, World Class Reactive, No Mercy Beat'n, Break Pearl).

If you read the notes, some balls, currently with a Core Torque number of 6.5, are described in the written text as NOT being skid/flip, while some with 6.5 are described as skid/flip.

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ok thanks for the input guys.  I wish they had a category for response to friction, the higher the number the quicker the response to friction the lower number=slower reaction time.
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