3 things you would change about pool

[straightline]

Just this for starters.

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2)
Once everyone has mastered 3" pool pockets, a division of full rack games played to the last ball for total ball count.
In Banks, 9, 10, 15 points per rack - All the way out regardless of rack size;
In One Pocket, 15 points per rack - Same thing ALL the way out.
In 15 ball rotation, 15 points per rack, all the way out. Last ball determines successive breaks.

3)
Timed matches. 1 to 2hr sets.
Total points count for advancement and regression and elimination. This is to curb clock riding.

 

[RidgeRaider]

Honestly the only thing that irks me time after time is there's no centralized rule-set. I can shoot at a bar one night and everyone is playing BCA, walk in the next night and they're playing bar rules, which are made up. You ask them if they know BCA and they look at you like you're an idiot.

Pool is pool, and I'll shoot with anyone, but people who only play by some whackass backwoods bar rules chap my ass usually. They're always the biggest bangers around and if they eek out a win, they strut around the bar like they just took down the Rifleman.

 

[Bob Jewett]

ESPN does need to provide anything needed for a pool tournament, just show up and film it or show a live feed, I would bet most tournament directors would love the publicity.....I could be wrong.....

The last I heard, pool on ESPN works like this:

You organize an event. You pay a production crew to film it. I guess you round up the commentators and take care of them. That will cost you tens of thousands to produce a tape.

You take the two-hour (with commercial slots) tape to ESPN, and say, "Please, sir, is this good enough for you to show?"

And then they say, "It's OK. You get part of the commercials in the first two times we air it, and then the tape is ours to use as we see fit."

That may have changed, but ESPN was absolutely uninterested in investing their time and money to produce a standard pool event.

 

[straightline]

One thing I forgot to mention about "to the last ball" rotation games, There is no specified money ball. Each rack is played per standard rotation rules and conventions until all the balls are down. If the 9 or 10 or 15 go down on a legal shot, they stay down. Any lone remaining ball is for the break only.

Can't say this alternate format is idiot proof. Players could empty out on a particular match and sacrifice advancement for the one score. Players though are liable to game anything so BFD. The majority should be firing in earnest. Difficult pool that anyone can grasp - ie. most balls.

Thinking about it, the biggest bummer is it kinda parallels APA.

 

[Swighey]

1Use of a Jump cue only the first shot if your inning. 2Make cue tips that don't need chalk 3Better payouts for pros.

I like this - although why not go all the way and make a jump shot legal only on the first shot of your inning..

 

[SSP]

The last I heard, pool on ESPN works like this:

You organize an event. You pay a production crew to film it. I guess you round up the commentators and take care of them. That will cost you tens of thousands to produce a tape.

You take the two-hour (with commercial slots) tape to ESPN, and say, "Please, sir, is this good enough for you to show?"

And then they say, "It's OK. You get part of the commercials in the first two times we air it, and then the tape is ours to use as we see fit."

That may have changed, but ESPN was absolutely uninterested in investing their time and money to produce a standard pool event.

If that's the way it works I wouldn't work with ESPN either.