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"Pluses and minuses in their own experience" - turning one's own experience into a plus or a minus nearly always requires bias. It's not good or bad, just bias. Even the question in the OP's original post shows bias - he says both leagues have pluses and minuses, then asks for...

For a thread with "no bias" in the title of the original post, there seems to be a lot of bias in the replies, but that's not unexpected. I could reply with an APA-biased reply but I'll just say find the value/price combination that suits you. Maybe you find value in both - then do both...

I don't think this level of "unmitigated nittiness" is dependent on whether it happens in a league, in a tournament, or in a match-up game. If the situation happens, you want to know how to handle it, that's all. Maybe what you're saying is you don't care if it is handled differently every...

Of course

They do, as long as they don't scratch after striking the rack.

There is a case. If the rack is struck but does not result in a legal break (first or second ball back in 8-Ball, 1-Ball in 9-Ball struck first, four object balls to a rail or one pocketed), the balls are re-racked. If the break also resulted in a scratch (but again, not other fouls), the...

It's on page 46-47 of the current OTM. You have to kind of read more than the beginning to realize that a distinction is made there between a foul and a scratch in 8-Ball. Scratch is cue ball off the playing surface, and is the only kind of foul with the "in the kitchen" requirement. It's not...

Keep them on Google Sheets. Over time you will accumulate the various sizes you need. The issue with zooming is on the user's end. If you share them as Google Sheets and not web pages they can be zoomed with any phone that has a current Google Sheets app on their phone, but if they have Docs...

50 innings is 100 misses and (a hill-hill match between 2's that ends 2-1) if they make every ball, 45 makes. That's 145 shots, or 48 minutes if the 20-second average is kept. At 45 per, it's an hour and 48 minutes. Even if it's 6's and not 2's, it's only 30 minutes longer for the shots (6...

I know you're joking, but it's an invalid scenario - it's a 20-second AVERAGE and a 45 second MAX, combined. In that respect is specific - you can't meet the average if you take the max every time. That said, if you took 45 seconds on every shot, nobody would probably complain except those who...

The 3-bye opens the possibility of someone getting 2 byes on the loser's side. The loser of L6 is a bye but is not shown, so there are still 4 byes but they're not spread fairly.

I tell people "don't be afraid to play worse". Don't intentionally play worse, but seeing patterns and defensive opportunities are skills that develop with practice/time and there's no shame in not making the perfect decision every time. Make timely decisions and commit to them - over time...

"Does not advertise" and "prevents" are two different things.

One way street? Please don't put words in my mouth. Where did I say they can't be lost? That phrase is there just to illustrate why it's seemingly much harder and takes much longer to go down than to go up when it's actual ability that the system tries to measure and not just average...

That draft thing sounds interesting, but I think it would only work in in-house leagues. Is yours in-house? I've always had trouble keeping a Master's league together due to stacking, but maybe this idea could work there too.

It does make it easier to advance players. But not for your reason. That's the excuse people use when they don't want to admit that they've improved or that they got caught cheating, or in their words (because it sounds like a legitimate strategy), 'working' the system. In 25+ years as an APA...

The rule actually was changed a few years ago, but not in the manner suggested in the OP. It was reworded to give you the opportunity to do the sportsmanlike thing if you knew where the shot was going. The phrase "and you call loss of game" was added. It's in the section titled "How to Win a...

In the national rules (that you already said you have access to), the only mention of breaking down your cue is under jump shots. Jump shots are legal when executed with a normal playing cue, but breaking that cue down to jump is not. It is not, nor was it ever, concession of game. If you do...

You would likely be out on the streets within a year. There is a clause in the franchise agreement that LOs are prohibited from owning an interest in a bar or pool hall. I know LOs get around this with unwritten arrangements, but those are only worth the paper they're written on. But that...

Not at all. You didn't put the word horrible in the title of the thread. I was just saying sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's sort of like having to choose the lesser of two evils. The APA's Juniors program was a grass roots thing. They just took over the...