All I play in is an APA here, and I thought that APA could if they wanted to could report to fargo is that correct or not?
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I forgot to answer this part of your question but first it requires some background.
FargoRate is a player rating system. It can be and often is used to accurately handicap matches, tournaments, and leagues. They have a partnership with CSI (Cue Sports International) who owns the BCAPL and USAPL pool leagues. CSI exclusively uses FargoRate as it's rating system to determine what divisions people belong in (most often on the BCAPL pool league side especially at large tournament events such as Nationals), and they use it whenever they need to handicap matches such as for their handicapped USAPL pool league. APA is a competing league who has their own [far less accurate] player rating system, and they use their own rating system to handicap APA matches. Because they are competitors, it is in my opinion highly unlikely that the APA would ever cooperate in any way with FargoRate or CSI. It would be good for the game but it would be bad for their business so APA would likely never do it.
Aside from that, the APA match formats probably wouldn't provide useful and usable information to FargoRate anyway. Here's why. FargoRate assesses people's ratings based on how they do in head to head match ups against competitors. To understand why that is, you have to understand how FargoRate works. To heavily simplify, FargoRate doesn't go by who won or lost matches, but rather they go by what the final score was for each match in even match ups. As an example, if you are a low rated player, rated say like your typical average league player, and you play Shane Van Boening a race to 9 and lose by a score of 9-8, your rating is going to go up. It doesn't matter that you lost. What FargoRate looks at is that you didn't play like an average league player that match. You played like a great or pro level player for that match to get that score against Shane. And likewise, Shane's rating would likely drop some even though he won, because in that match his level of play was barely above the average league player because he barely beat an average league player. FargoRate cares what somebody wins or loses by (not who won or lost), or put another way, for any particular match it cares how you performed compared to how you were expected to perform as someone with your rating against someone with your opponent's rating. When you play better than your rating against the caliber of opponent you had, then you go up, and when you don't play as well as someone with your rating was supposed to against the caliber of opponent you had, you go down.
Since FargoRate assesses ratings only by looking at the final score in head to head match ups, handicapped matches of the APA would not be usable by FargoRate. That said, there can be very rare exceptions to that if the matches are handicapped in a very specific way such as how they are done in the USAPL pool league where the information is then still valuable and useful to FargoRate, but for the most part they can't make use of any handicapped match results anyway such as those that would come from the APA.
