9 ball handicapping.
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Handicap tournaments are run like this... if its a 9 point scale usually the best players are a "9" handicap and the worst players are like "3" handicap... Your handicap will move up or down depending on your results in the tournament over a persiod of a few weeks... Now the handicaps themselves signify the number of games the player has to win to win the match ... for example if a 9 handicap played a 3 handicap then the race would be 9 to 3 with the better player having to win 9 games before the other player won 3 games or vice versa.... sometimes places have a 9 or 11 point scale with a plus/minus system which means that if a 9 level player wins the tournament 3 weeks in a row then obviously his handicapped needs to be changed. They will make him a 9 -1 (nine minus 1). WHich means that this player stills has to go to 9 but his opponent takes one game off of his own handicap... so a 9 -1 playing a 3, the race would be 9 to 2... if he played a 6 level player, the race would be 9 to 5 and so on... I love handicap tournaments even though I am a higher handicap player... it provides a good challenge and allows there to be a good tournout to weekly tournaments where the worst player in the city could take down the cash... hope this helps....
Handicap tournaments are run like this... if its a 9 point scale usually the best players are a "9" handicap and the worst players are like "3" handicap... Your handicap will move up or down depending on your results in the tournament over a persiod of a few weeks... Now the handicaps themselves signify the number of games the player has to win to win the match ... for example if a 9 handicap played a 3 handicap then the race would be 9 to 3 with the better player having to win 9 games before the other player won 3 games or vice versa.... sometimes places have a 9 or 11 point scale with a plus/minus system which means that if a 9 level player wins the tournament 3 weeks in a row then obviously his handicapped needs to be changed. They will make him a 9 -1 (nine minus 1). WHich means that this player stills has to go to 9 but his opponent takes one game off of his own handicap... so a 9 -1 playing a 3, the race would be 9 to 2... if he played a 6 level player, the race would be 9 to 5 and so on... I love handicap tournaments even though I am a higher handicap player... it provides a good challenge and allows there to be a good tournout to weekly tournaments where the worst player in the city could take down the cash... hope this helps....
I also played in a tournament where the handicap system allowed the lesser skilled player to have "a ball". In other words a lesser skilled player had to only sink the 8 ball to win. And the higher player had to sink both the 8 and the 9. Really low skilled players may only need to sink up to the 6 ball. The higher ranked player would have to sink the 6 7 8 and 9 etc.
I've played both game spots and ball spots and far prefer the game spot type system. It is so much easier to remember who needs what. Also when playing with ball spots (wild) lower level players often end up just banging around hoping to make one of their wild balls. This creates even more games won by luck rather than skill IMO.
djkx1 said:
I have also played using both systems, but I have never played in one where the spot ball was wild. Assuming that they have to call it, I myself would prefer giving up a ball spot. You have a chance to get the spot ball off the table, but there isn't any way to remove games from the wire.