This is not a league-bashing thread.
Two things have happened since last Thursday night that I simply cannot figure out. We were playing league 9-ball against the team that has the League Operator on it.
1.) On last weeks scoresheet, the opposing team had 5 (five) players on the roster whose aggregate skill levels totaled 23 (the league maximum).
The League Operators skill level was a SL4 (he's a SL6 in 8-ball). I've seen him play, he's better than a SL4.
Last Thursday, his team signed-up a new player (a woman who starts out as a SL2). The League Operator was a no-show.
On this weeks updated website, the League Operator's skill level is NOW a SL5, although he did not play last week, nor has he played thus far this session. (Funny how it went "right up" when the team no longer had a problem with the 23-rule, isn't it?)
How does he go up a skill level without playing a match, and wouldn't this have "cheated" my team had he shown up and played as a SL4 last week???
2.) They signed up a new player last week, a woman who starts out as a SL2, as she is supposed to.
She plays a match against a woman on our team who is also a SL2.
She beats our woman SL2 in about 24-26 innings (normal innings for a SL2) by a 12-8 score.
Their SL2 woman, after WINNING her first match against an equally ranked opponent in normal innings for their skill levels, DROPS to a SL1 after this ONE match.
My teams have had NUMEROUS women on them in the not-so-distant past lose their first 4-5 matches, many times in lo-o-o-o-ng innings, before they went down a skill level (to a SL1).
How in the HELL does this woman WIN her first match (in normal innings for the skill level she was) and not at least stay where she was rated???
Can somebody make some sense of this??? I cannot, and I doubt you are going to make a believer out of me either.
I HAVE e-mailed the League Operator AND National Headquarters looking for an explanation. I am awaiting their replies. I do not think that anything they tell me is going to be to my satisfaction, how the way things work for some teams, but not others.
This is not a crying or whining thread, just wondering if someone can possibly give me some insight as to how these two scenarios could have come about.
Maniac
Two things have happened since last Thursday night that I simply cannot figure out. We were playing league 9-ball against the team that has the League Operator on it.
1.) On last weeks scoresheet, the opposing team had 5 (five) players on the roster whose aggregate skill levels totaled 23 (the league maximum).
The League Operators skill level was a SL4 (he's a SL6 in 8-ball). I've seen him play, he's better than a SL4.
Last Thursday, his team signed-up a new player (a woman who starts out as a SL2). The League Operator was a no-show.
On this weeks updated website, the League Operator's skill level is NOW a SL5, although he did not play last week, nor has he played thus far this session. (Funny how it went "right up" when the team no longer had a problem with the 23-rule, isn't it?)
How does he go up a skill level without playing a match, and wouldn't this have "cheated" my team had he shown up and played as a SL4 last week???
2.) They signed up a new player last week, a woman who starts out as a SL2, as she is supposed to.
She plays a match against a woman on our team who is also a SL2.
She beats our woman SL2 in about 24-26 innings (normal innings for a SL2) by a 12-8 score.
Their SL2 woman, after WINNING her first match against an equally ranked opponent in normal innings for their skill levels, DROPS to a SL1 after this ONE match.
My teams have had NUMEROUS women on them in the not-so-distant past lose their first 4-5 matches, many times in lo-o-o-o-ng innings, before they went down a skill level (to a SL1).
How in the HELL does this woman WIN her first match (in normal innings for the skill level she was) and not at least stay where she was rated???
Can somebody make some sense of this??? I cannot, and I doubt you are going to make a believer out of me either.
I HAVE e-mailed the League Operator AND National Headquarters looking for an explanation. I am awaiting their replies. I do not think that anything they tell me is going to be to my satisfaction, how the way things work for some teams, but not others.
This is not a crying or whining thread, just wondering if someone can possibly give me some insight as to how these two scenarios could have come about.
Maniac
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