Is fun when you find a fun team to play on that prioritizes / schedules approximate throw time (first two, second two or last two matches), otherwise you are:
- You could be in a bar over 5 hours almost every week while the host tries to get you to buy as much food and drink as possible during that whole timeframe
- Trying to keep "warmed up" while you wait from the first match to the last match, which can be a challenge when there are no / very few practice tables (see my first bullet point while you are around waiting to be thrown)
- After you wait for the first four matches you find out the 5th match is someone else being thrown from your team (see my first bullet point while you are around waiting to be thrown)
- There should be a SL8 in 8 ball, but that would just make the nights longer, maybe that's what the bar wants here (see my first bullet point while you are around waiting to be thrown)
- Once your very fun team gets better, players / the team gets top heavy with the APA business model expecting the higher SL players becoming managers for new teams for the given league night and recruiting new (assumed unlimited new) players to increase the league's and host's bottom line (see my first bullet point while you are around waiting to be thrown)
Basically, in summary, APA is a pyramid scheme league to make the league's leaders (league operator on up the chain) and the host money with the change of one or possibly a few teams in a league some payouts. The people are usually cool until you run into some exceptions that cause problems with rules or hosts, but APA does not do anything to correct the problem behavior.
Master's league nights seem to be the exception(s) here with more consistently rated players on smaller teams and more serious about pool and the rules, at least in my local APA league that I haven't played in for years...
