It's mostly that way throughout Louisiana, from what I've experienced. Even with the other League Operators. I've heard of plenty Louisiana teams going to nationals and having players disqualified for sandbagging. Half the time it's because the LO isn't handicapping everyone correctly.
imo lo's should not be handicapping players manually unless obvious sandbagging is occurirng. .
proper scorekeeping should ensure proper handicaps..
let me give you an example of a recent match i had.
i am a 5 and had a match against one of our other strong 5's.
i won 4-3 in 30 innings. i played 20 safes and he played 3. if safes were not marked and just looking at the innings you would think we were just missing a lot of shots during our match.in other words playing like a couple of 3's.
once the safties are totaled up you can see there were a total of 7 offensive innings in 7 racks.a 30 inning match without 27 total safes between opponents marked can greatly throw off your handicap level if done with any amount of frequency.
that is why i am always making sure any one keeping score on my teams is marking all safes.
on a side note.... a new players handicap can fluctuate greatly until he has a few games establishing his true playing ability.
take my g/f's 18 year old son.
starts as a 4. wins 3-0 against a weak 3. goes up to a 5.
ain't no way in hell he is a true 5. he is one of those that hits every thing at warp speed lol.
last week he played a 6....thinking he had a chance lol. he lost 5-0. his ego got a reality check lol. now he is back to a 4 this week.
in my honest opinion he is only a 3 and should get to a 3 in a few more weeks.
other the other end of the spectrum ..his friend who is also 18 joined out team at the same time. after 2 matches he has dropped to a 2 in 8 ball and a 1 in 9 ball already. yea he plays that bad lol.
