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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...

I'm afraid I can't speak much to this topic. I don't have a Juniors program, so when the APA announced it to the LO network I didn't pay a lot of attention. I do know that the LO's who do have Juniors are very upset, and I know there are lots of hoops to jump through in this country just to...

Heh, payback for every ball you make. So you never learn when to play safe because it's all about making balls, or maybe its about preventing your opponent from making balls instead of preventing them from winning the match. You can even win fewer games, as long as you make more balls. Or...

Because you don't have to win to go to Vegas in BCA, you assume nobody is cheating. But every year I hear about teams who go there and should not be allowed in the tournament they're in, or individuals whose Fargo appears to be too low. "Nobody cheats in BCA" is just something you say to save...

Handicap systems don't punish, they challenge. And they all do it. Different ways, but they all do it. Name a handicap system that doesn't make it harder to win when you put the best players you can find on a team. It's an oxymoron. But congratulations on finding a league where you're not...

I can see only two ways you would make it 5 out of 8 years in my area. One is to be on several teams and go with different teams. I once had a player who captained six teams a week, all with different rosters. He went several times over a twenty-something-year period, but never with the same...

If I'm reading this right you're saying you used to cheat when you played APA. It's a win/win that you don't anymore.

They. Don't.. That's. What. I. Previously. Said.. I. Do., Because. You. Just. Told. Me. I also said you have to do it repeatedly, and scorekeepers are going to get suspicious. Some of those scorekeepers are going to start marking it, to the point where you honestly dog a shot and...

You missed a shot intentionally and it wasn't marked as a defense on either scoresheet. What part of that makes my statement untrue? You also have to do that repeatedly to have any real impact, and if you do it repeatedly scorekeepers are going to suspect your intentions, so you're not hiding...

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but a 391 should have about a 33% chance of winning any game against a 485. That's less than 4% of the time for 3-0, yet we've all seen it happen. That's because the expected 2-1 ratio is over the long term, against similar numbers, not the short...

Taking a harder stance against sandbagging pays off in the long run for an APA franchise. People quit because they think they have to sandbag to win and they don't want to. If players see the LO taking a harder stance (like kicking sandbaggers out when they have proof and raising skill levels...