I picked a match at random to watch before, during and after dinner just for something to do. It was Ed Culhane and Dwight Dixon. While it was on I looked up what I could find out about each - made it a little more interesting. Culhane was really inconsistent, Dixon pretty much handled the match easily. I just enjoyed watching players for a bit that are a lot more relatable to how I play (but I don't compete, not in the arena, so to speak) and "seeing" things I through they were seeing, understanding how things went wrong and from Culhane's side of things, surprised how often he seemed to be hitting balls too hard and how off his position play was and probably just off in general that particular match - not criticizing, just observing and no doubt either would own my house shortly after I invited them to dinner if we went downstairs after and played, haha.
Totally different, but I watching one of those vids of APA finals from some random year and all levels of players, but man, some of the ones with higher numbers would have had a tough time winning in the bars we played at in my youthful university days. Just an observation, maybe watching those for some who don't have a lot of confidence in their games or don't know how they "stack up" would be a good way to see where they fit. Looked like a lot of fun, though, and that should be the point of it. Know someone who plays a lot of APA around here and he really enjoys it - I'm too old to be hanging around bars playing pool on the one crappy coin operated table with much younger folks - that ship sailed about the time I got married and sunk when we had kids. But if leagues had been more of a thing when I was in college, I'd have been all in --only issue is I used to buy a pack of Camel straights to enjoy when playing pool -- stupid, but loved the purple haze -- one thing I'm glad I gave up 30+ years ago.
