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Pacific Power Line 16L vs Prince Tournament Nylon 15L

Power Line 16L leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Power Line 16L is 24 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Pacific

Power Line 16L

Nylon · 16L ga

Prince

Tournament Nylon 15L

Nylon · 15L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18148th pct
18754th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
1916th pct
2017th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9274th pct
9272nd pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.416th pct
3.111th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40929th pct
0.3615th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.12183rd pct
0.11680th pct

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from Power Line 16L at 52 lb

String Tournament Nylon 15L at 49.8 lb 22.6 kg

Coming from Tournament Nylon 15L at 52 lb

String Power Line 16L at 54.9 lb 24.9 kg

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

Power Line 16L mains / Tournament Nylon 15L crosses

Stiffness50th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss16th pct · 1 measured
Energy return73rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential15th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th pct · 1 measured
String friction83rd pct · 1 measured

Tournament Nylon 15L mains / Power Line 16L crosses

Stiffness52nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss16th pct · 1 measured
Energy return73rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential12th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite7th pct · 1 measured
String friction82nd pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

Power Line 16L

~35 hours of play

Tournament Nylon 15L

~35 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Pacific Power Line 16L Nylon16Lfind18119923.40.4090.121
Prince Tournament Nylon 15L Nylon15Lfind18720923.10.3610.116

Add a third string Power Line 16L in full Tournament Nylon 15L in full