APA Captain Strategy

[lorider]

In a match that matters like in cities or the playoffs or Las Vegas we will usually throw our best 5 and put up first. We also like the other team to know he's our best 5. In lead off matches he has a win percentage of 93.4, in walk off matches his win rate is pretty good, but in the middle matches his win percentage is pretty average. We put him up in the first match because if the other team knows him we will either get their best or their weakest and if they don't know him and they try to match up he'll always manage to play some of his best pool and he's like the honey badger - he don't care. We've never seen him slow down or lay down in a match. Against some lower S/L players he may try some things he wouldn't normally do, but he always says there is absolutely no reason to give the opponent an opening. He's not a dick or anything like that, he's just one of those people that always gives his best effort whether it's pool or grocery shopping. He'd been trying for weeks to get with this girl on one of the other teams, she's an S/L 4 and she's finally talking to him. They're laughing and really enjoying each others company, he's totally in. So we put him up in the next match, they put her up and he just tortures her. Plays safes, has a B&R, beats her 4 - 0. It's been over a year and she hasn't spoke to him since. Asked once if he regretted that win, he said no, he'd rather win. I think his priorities might be a bit off, but it sure is nice to have someone that almost guarentees a win in that first match, and he's always just having fun. Gives us many options when it's important

i was talking strictly regular session. when it comes to playoffs or above i leave all matching up to my co captain....he is a 7/9.

he just so happens to match up like you do. he always throws me 1st since i am the 2nd best player on the team besides him... i happen to be a 5 also lol. now this is when we throw 1st. if the other team throws 1st its all up to what level they throw that decides who we throw.

the only time i have dis agreed with him was in the 9 ball tri cups for 1st place. after 3 matches we were down by 4 points. they threw a strong 5 and we knew all they had left was a 4 since they only had 5 players there. we had me ..a strong 5 and 2 -3's left.

i knew the 5 but knew nothing about the 4. i quickly went over to the captain of my other team and asked about him....she knows everybody lol. under my rating system he is rated as a week 4.

well my co captain suggested throwing our best 3 hoping she kept it close and me blowing away their 4.

i told him no. if he blows her away " which i thought he was very capable of " and i blow away the 4 we still lose. he asks can i beat this 5. i say we are evenly matched it just depends on who wants it more. i told him it would probly be 12-8 either way.

problem was if i lost 12-8 we would be down 8 points which we did not think our 3 could overcome. he said ok lets go for it.

well sure enough i won 12-8 which tied us up and she managed to beat that 4 sending us to cities and then on to vegas.

as i said in the regular session i usually match up then i turn it over to him in playoffs.