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Bob is right. Most of it is for marketing. Not to sell, to use. Are the customers in your area mostly white-collar or blue-collar, for example? It helps put together programs that attract people to your product, or determine demographics that you might not be attracting as well as others...

Just be careful if yours is not an in-house league. If it's a traveling league, it might have the additional constraint of a restriction on the number of tables available at a given location. Tournament-type round robin scheduling programs don't take this restriction into consideration...

Exactly, and that's the difference watching one match could make. If you played a lower skilled player and showed that lack of intensity throughout, the person watching might not have any more information than they already have (they might not see any 700'ish play) and might see a player who's...

I think the answer's in the question. They do not consistently play like a 650, for whatever reason, including misreported results (7-6 instead of 7-2), of which the player may or may not be aware.

Again, that's only part of the picture, and for some people who will always see just the part of the picture they want to see, I can understand how it might not make sense to them. That match came after complaints from players/teams, feedback from HAC members, etc., and was the last piece of...

That's looking at only part of the picture. What does the HAC say? Like I said, once I'm suspicious I exhaust all my resources before becoming "unsuspicious", including talking to the player themselves. You'd be surprised how much info you can get from a seemingly innocent conversation...

I think you misunderstood the misused reference of the word "they" in cookie man's post. It was referring to the 3, giving them a match they are expected to lose to "anchor" their skill level at 3. It's my job in that case to make sure the 3 is legit, and to make sure the rest of the team is...

It might be. It also might not be. It tells me that one or both of two things is true. It tells me the team thinks the player is better than their number (regardless of whether they expect that player to win some of those matches) or it tells me the player is being sacrificed to make the...

I can't lower a skill level. I can let a player go down one level below the highest they've ever been, and sometimes I can appeal that "highest they've ever been" to get them lower. But in those cases as in the case of raising a player I have to be pretty sure the number needs to change to be...

I'm saying I pay attention. Anybody who expects a computer to get all the numbers right is an idiot. Anybody who doesn't expect a computer to get most of the numbers right is also an idiot. If I think someone is sandbagging, I will try to get proof. If I get that proof, they're gone. I...

Pay attention. That's my job. Have a Handicap Advisory Committee and players who alert me when someone is being mindful. We all review skill levels weekly, we see everyone who played a match. Corporate also knows who is spending time reviewing and who isn't. But Corporate doesn't know who...

And have a league operator who isn't paying attention. It's why I rarely have repeats.

The singles program doesn't follow the team schedule. Two seasons a year, the first is 1/1 through 6/15 (October regional) and the other is 6/16 through 11/30 (March regional). The winners from those regionals all play at the end of April. Best of luck if you decide to do it!

The hotel's paid and you get travel assistance to get there, so you're mostly covered there. But that just means you'll be taking the spot from one of your counterparts, probably only two can go each year (one monster per regional), unless you count 9-Ball, then two more. But it's quite all...

Assume for the sake of THIS argument that the APA World 8-Ball Championships, with its 800-some teams, has ZERO sandbaggers. It will never have zero, no big money handicapped event will no matter whose system you're using, but for the sake of this discussion lets assume zero. By the time you...

As if that would stop any of the complainers from complaining. Get real. In another reply you alluded to 50% sandbaggers at nationals. I would put that at a stretch, but not an unbelievable claim, 20 years ago. More like 1-2% now, and that's the same 1-2% who would show up at a FargoRate...

APA has no problem with FargoRate's existence. They also don't believe the Equalizer is perfect - that's why they constantly work to improve it. They just don't believe FargoRate offers them anything from a ratings viewpoint or from a business viewpoint that they don't already have, and in...

No it did not. There may have been thoughts of partnerships with the pros, which have been attempted over the years, each failing for one reason or another. Sponsors did add prize money to the pros (and APA has been a sponsor of both men and women pro tours at various times). Most failures...

There's the fallacy in your thinking. "Lion's share". What makes you think pro pool deserves ANY share of that money? Neither is old school, apparently. It's still available, yet nobody's taking that route. It's a rung in the ladder, just like little league and Pop Warner. It's near the...

Lol. You say BACK into pro pool like that's where the money started. That's my whole point - the money APA makes is a result of the work done by its founders and league operators, and would never be otherwise spent on pool.