A few updates here.
League play is divided into two categories: USAPL and EVERYTHING ELSE
USAPL:
-- get prepared to hear a lot more about this. USA Pool League is team match-play format under the CSI Umbrella. It is now using FargoRate LMS (league management system) and is revamped to be fully integrated with Fargo Ratings. Games from a match played today go into the system tonight and tickle the ratings of everybody around the world. The basic idea, for 8-ball at least, is instead of playing, say, a 4 to 6 match based on a handicap, your Fargo Ratings determine the match you play (see
http://usaplraceto.azurewebsites.net/ to get an idea). Your match might be 62 to 80. You play 8-ball accumulating 14 points for a win and balls pocketed for a loss racing to your number. There are 9-Ball and 10-Ball and mixed configurations, but basically the format is fixed and prescribed. LMS is fully functional and a LMS USAPL Mobile Scoring App is functional and being tested by some select divisions. This system is the nuts, and , imo, is the best way to expand the base of pool, bring new people in. If anybody wants to get out front and apply to become a league manager in your area, check out
http://www.playcsipool.com/start-a-league.html and talk to Jack Murray at CSI.
Everything else
This includes tons of different formats out there, round-robin team play with 3-player teams, 4,5,6, or 7-player teams; straight up or handicapped; scored by just game wins or 10-point system or 17-point system, and on and on. LMS is being configured to handle a wide range of formats. So whatever the size of your league or division, you can use LMS for it and get games directly into FargoRate. This is basically functional now, but because there are so many different formats and options and report options to configure it just the way you want it, we are doing more testing. Here is a league using LMS--one I played in last night--just to give you an idea. This is the public reports link. You can change what division within the league you are looking at in the upper left, and you can see completed scoresheets by choosing "view" under Schedule/Results.
http://lms.fargorate.com/PublicRepo...visionId=a38e2f90-543a-49e8-83c0-a68b015d2284
The cost for this will be a once-a-year $15/player charge. Each player will get FargoRate mobile app through which he can see his own game history, historical record against any opponent, and more. The fee is paid to CSI, and this will also get your league sanctioned with BCAPL (CSI). There is no additional cost. It doesn't matter if you are sanctioned with some other organization as well. By bringing Fargo Ratings to the world, CSI has assumed the role of an umbrella organization of sorts... We are working on a mobile scoring APP for this as well.
Past and present BCAPL players and what data is going in to FargoRate
FargoRate is growing fast. Each week so far in 2017 has more hits to our website than every week of 2016 and before. The number of games in the system will his 5 million this week, up from about 1 million when we did the explanatory videos. We have been getting in, in fits and spurts, lots of past league data from BCAPL leagues. There is no guarantee yours is or will be in, but there is more to go in. Here are a couple plots that show by state the number of players with at least 100 games in the system and how that has changed from 6 months ago and from 18 months ago.
Most of this is building train tracks; LMS will be introducing a fleet of trains.