Recent content by bhayhurst

Thanks for the advice. I will look him up. I'm sorry, I don't know where the numbers for the chart came from. I "designed" it, for what it's worth. Feel free to use it. Here's one for a race to 125:

Also, does anyone know how to not become a "new member"? I've been a member for years and years, and I'm still a "new member".

Does anyone know an algorithm to determine straight pool handicaps? Hi. I'm running a straight-pool league. Obviously, there aren't "teams", it's just every-person-for-themselves. I don't have a way to determine handicaps -- the guy I'm running it with is pretty good at eyeing people up, but...

For people who practice on terrible tables and compete on nice ones, or pros that have to play in a ton of different environments: how do you deal with it? I just moved to a new city, and in the part of the city where I live (South Side / Southern 'burbs), the pool halls are terrible. Bad...

So, generally, the answer you have is "rounded pockets are harder". How about for those really thin cuts that you have to hit really-really soft?

In one hand are the side pockets used in Chinese and English 8 ball. The tables have the snooker-style side pockets, with the rounded edges. (For discussion let's call them snooker-style pockets or something like that.) In the other hand are the other style of side pockets that, say, your...

So it basically created even matches save for the occasional opportunistic soul. Sounds like it worked.

That makes sense. I knew that "robustness" was a measurement of how many games you'd played, so, yeah, the lower the number the higher your ratings swings should be. I wish I new that number for the players that my friend suspects of being sandbaggers (which I don't). I don't.

Yeah, I suppose that the more data is gathered, the more accurate your handicap is, right? Isn't that sort of the cure for edge cases like "I ran into the entire Mosconi Cup team at my local hall, but they were blackout drunk so I took 'em for a kershmillion dollars" or "I'm dopesick -- can't...

The place that holds the tournament actually held two or three tournaments a week (to replace the leagues that stopped due to Covid), and I always saw those "pros" there. A few months of two or three tournaments a week add up, but I don't know if it would add up enough to make a difference...

I won't be identifying the parties involved for reasons that will be obvious later. I'm not a great player. I'm a 5-about-to-be-a-6 in APA. Where I lived until a few months ago, there wasn't any BCA in the city (at least as far as I was aware), so the APA it had to be. This didn't bother me...

Hmmm.... that's a good idea. I didn't think of that.

The balls at the pool hall that I go to look exactly the same -- same pattern, colors, everything. They may be, in fact, the same balls. Except the ones at the pool hall aren't brand new. Or, you know... round. I want to make sure that my set of new, polished, round balls don't end up...

The pool hall I go to has decent tables but horrible balls. The answer was obvious -- buy myself a set of balls. The problem is, I ended up buying balls that look exactly like the balls that the pool room has. So here's my question: is there a way to mark a set of balls? Sort of like...

Does such a case exist? And even better be able to hold three cues (regular, break, jump). The only one I could find on the interwebs was an Aramith case which didn't meet criteria 2 (stuff). The Predator Urbain 3x5 might be able to hold a set of balls, but you'd have to jimmy-rig it -- it's...