So I did something interesting last week. I dumped a match. Not to get my skill lowered but to play a new 7 in our league.
Funny part is the guy I was playing, who was a 6 like me, ran out best I've ever seen him after I "missed" so I just had to basically miss like 4-5 shots the whole set for him to beat me pretty easily.
My thinking was this, we had a ghost player, and that was the last match, they picked the ghost. If I played badly, they would likely pick me since the other games would have been 2-6 or 3-6. If I played it would be a 5-4 race. If I lost, we would be tied 2-2 with that last set the decider.
I really wanted to see what this 7 had in him, so I played my first set to get matched up against him. And it worked. The other team picked me to play last set.
Guy played well, smooth shooter but he got beaten by the crappy bar table like I often do. He just got bit by it first leaving an open table for me often.
I ended up winning 4-3 with both of not breaking any records for good league play, I think every game we both had 2 innings if not more.
lets see if i got this right.
ya'll were going to have some one play twice. the rules state the opposing team picks their opponent.
you dumped your match hoping the other team would pick you for the replay cause you wanted to see how good this guy was.
their choices for a replay were
2-6
3-6
or you in a 5-4.
well be glad i was not the opposing captain...i would have chose the 6-3 race. any thing can happen in a 6-2 race and a 5-4 race is just too close to call.
glad it worked out for you though.
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