What's your APA 8-ball Skill Level?

Please state your Skill Level in APA 8-ball

  • 0 (unrated)

    Votes: 18 5.3%

  • 2

    Votes: 2 0.6%

  • 3

    Votes: 5 1.5%

  • 4

    Votes: 27 8.0%

  • 5

    Votes: 47 13.9%

  • 6

    Votes: 87 25.8%

  • 7

    Votes: 151 44.8%
  • Total voters
    337
lorider said:
same here dub. you may remember i went up to a 6 a while back. went back down to a 5 and have been stuck in a rut ever since.

i dont know what happened...maybe i reached my peak. maybe its old age creeping up on me...be 61 in a few months . maybe its mental or a combination of things.

when i reached a 6 i was hoping to improve to a 7 before old age caught up with me. don't look like that is gonna happen unless i get my head outa ...well you know.:grin:
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I'm betting one of the big reasons I believe is affecting me, is probably also affecting you. Administration....

I captain one team, and co captain another. You play about 12 times a week, if I recall :p

I'm pretty sure I spend too much time with the "administration", running the team, and not enough playing and practicing. Its not surprising, in my case, I tend to gravitate towards these things, no matter what vocation or hobby I get into. Might apply to you, too?
 
I run into that in TAP a bit...

SpinDoctor said:
I was playing against a guy in 9 ball league years ago who was a 3(I was a 9) and I started the match off with a 5 pack followed by a dry break. Their 3(lol) ran out the match. To say he was a sandbagger was an understatement. By season end he was a 5 and his team went on to win the Vegas tournament and I realized that I hate apa.

I can't count the number of times that the opposing teams high handicaps would argue about who was playing me and then put up some poor 2 instead of playing. Blech
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I only play tap but it was getting to the point that opposing teams would only put up their lower rated players because they realized it was easier for someone to get lucky two racks to my 6 or 7 than 4 or 5 racks to my 5 or 6.

But the good thing about TAP is that I also run into teams where people want to play me. They really want to improve and realize that playing better players will help them.

Jaden
 
I'm also a 7. Played as an 8 years ago in 9-ball and started APA 8ball 3 sessions ago so I came in as a 7. I would no longer consider myself an 8 because of lack of practicing, etc. I agree the SL 7 range in very large.

I wish APA would extend the 23 points to 25 like the APL does. (APL is a very small PA league, FYI)


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APA 6 and I play with some of the nicest people you may ever meet,maybe its just my area
 
I just recently started playing pool over the last 2 years because my girlfriends aunt and uncle needed another player on their team. At first I thought it was stupid honestly and now I'm hooked I dropped to a 2 in 9 ball at first and now I'm a 4 about to be a 5. Around where I live it seems their is a wide range of 5s instead of 7s like everyone else is saying. Most teams for 9ball in my area don't have anyone ranked over six and normally they only have one six then a couple 5s and then the rest lower ranks.
 
justadub said:
I'm betting one of the big reasons I believe is affecting me, is probably also affecting you. Administration....

I captain one team, and co captain another. You play about 12 times a week, if I recall :p

I'm pretty sure I spend too much time with the "administration", running the team, and not enough playing and practicing. Its not surprising, in my case, I tend to gravitate towards these things, no matter what vocation or hobby I get into. Might apply to you, too?
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12 ? ? i will have you know i have cut back ....sorta :grin-square:

i dropped both napa divisions....nothing wrong with napa at all...just cut back for various reasons.

after this session is over i am leaving my tue night team to join another team....that goes to vegas almost every year. this captain has asked me every session for the last 2 years to join his team. i decided to join after the addition of a couple players on my team who i simply can not stand..suprising because i have always been laid back and get along with every one...but not these 2.

i play fri night scotch doubles with my g/f with the intention of just having fun and not being a serious team....hence our name ...just clowning around. the strange thing is we have been in 1st place ll session with just 2 weeks to go in 8 ball. 2nd place in 9 ball...unbelievable for a team that supposedly is not taking league play seriously.

i play masters every other sunday afternoon. so far i am 1-2. never expected to win any matches in this division. guess every one gets lucky once in a while.

i play sunday night double jeapordy. the main core of this team has been together for 3 years and we decided to split the team up. my g/f is gonna one team and i the other. we all get along pretty great but i have caused some tension between my g/f and i due to i expect better out of some players. this team went to vegas 2 years ago under my captaining it and i expected for us to go again.

we decided i will take the serious players and she will take the ones who just want a night out. the problem is i will only have 3 established players and the rest will probably be new to the game.
 
I voted 6 because that's what I was in 8 ball (7 in 9) the last time I played APA during the 2014 Summer session. In the intervening period I joined a Valley team and really improved my 8 ball game so who knows if I would still be a 6 or not. As others have stated it's hard for it to really mean anything because there are so many variables. Level of competition in your area or division, your willingness to play good competition if it's available, and the fact that 7 can cover a huge range of players of different abilities.
 
SL6 in 8ball. Was bumped up to SL8 in 9ball shortly before I quit handicap APA to play only masters. If I'm playing my best, that SL8 rating is fair but geez it's hard for me to fade giving 20 balls of weight to a SL6 (65 to 45). I don't play my best every week.
 
troll bump, but this does demonstrate how much more serious AZB posters are compared to the average APA player. Due to APA rules only a small number of players in a given league can be SL6 or SL7 yet they comprise the vast majority here.
 
skip100 said:
troll bump, but this does demonstrate how much more serious AZB posters are compared to the average APA player. Due to APA rules only a small number of players in a given league can be SL6 or SL7 yet they comprise the vast majority here.
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It stands to reason that there would be more higher level apa members on this forum than 5'a or below. They probably are more serious about their game....bur serious about what ?

When I first joined this forum it was possible to learn quite a bit about how to improve your game . It is very seldom that way now.

Now its filled with threads about what's the best chalk ....tip...cue under 100.00. Plus that piasing contest between Lou and John with 40,000 views so far and ever one giving their .02 cent.dont forget threads about apa also where you have the normal brilliant post.....apa sucks.
 
I think most people are 3s and 5s honestly. Around here most teams are mainly composed of 3s and 4s with maybe one 5 or 6. 7s seem to be rare and even if my skill level was 7 I don't think I would want to be a 7.
 
skip100...This is incorrect information. There are no APA rules limiting how many players within a league area can be sl6 or sl7 (in 8ball). Where do you get this ridiculous information? Now, it is true that there will likely be many fewer 6's & 7's than the other skill levels, but that is not due to any "rule". :rolleyes:

Scott Lee ~ former APA LO
http://poolknowledge.com

skip100 said:
Due to APA rules only a small number of players in a given league can be SL6 or SL7.
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Scott Lee said:
skip100...This is incorrect information. There are no APA rules limiting how many players within a league area can be sl6 or sl7 (in 8ball). Where do you get this ridiculous information? Now, it is true that there will likely be many fewer 6's & 7's than the other skill levels, but that is not due to any "rule". :rolleyes:

Scott Lee ~ former APA LO
http://poolknowledge.com
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Clearly having many SL6's and SL7's is not specifically banned. However, there is a natural limit to the number of 6's and 7's that can play due to the rule limiting the total skill level to 23 across five players competing in a given match.

Of course, as a former league operator you are well aware of that rule, so I'm not sure why you decided to get pissy about this other than wanting to pick a pedantic fight.
 
It's because of how you stated your information. You made no reference to the 23 rule, and generically stated that APA rules prohibit the number of 6's and 7's that can be in a league area. That's not true.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

skip100 said:
Clearly having many SL6's and SL7's is not specifically banned. However, there is a natural limit to the number of 6's and 7's that can play due to the rule limiting the total skill level to 23 across five players competing in a given match.

Of course, as a former league operator you are well aware of that rule, so I'm not sure why you decided to get pissy about this other than wanting to pick a pedantic fight.
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Scott Lee said:
It's because of how you stated your information. You made no reference to the 23 rule, and generically stated that APA rules prohibit the number of 6's and 7's that can be in a league area. That's not true.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
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C'mon Scott....as long as you have been on here you oughta know ....sometimes what someone types is not exactly what they mean.:smile:

Just for funnies I looked up every ones handicap in just one division.keep in mind it may not be representative of our entire league as we have 14 divisions

Strictly 8 ball

S/l 7's ....8

S/l 6's....16

S/l 5's...21

S/l 4's...27

S/l 3's...34

S/l 2's...8

Total ...114 players. Did not realize there were so many players on Sunday night. No dang wonder that place is so crowded on that night !
 
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