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And of course the woodwork isn't flat, it's round, so the surface area of a curved surface is relevant, and the potential angles a ball could be hit from, and the radius of the ball, and all sorts of other factors which makes the problem much harder to work out.
In short, is the change proportional? Mathematically? No. Approximately? Yes.