i have no doubt sand bagging goes on in apa. the thing is you will find sand baggers in any handicapped league.
i do doubt sand bagging is as rampant as some people on here would lead you to believe. you see...the apa is 4 times larger than the next largest league so its obvious you are 4 times as likely to encounter a sand bagger.
i also think it is blown out of proportion due to many people can not seem to fathom that some people just happen to be very inconsistent and have very good nights and very bad nights....like me. :grin:
i have been accused of being a sand bagger in apa more than once...i also have been accused of being under handicapped in napa more than once. funny how in any other league the term under handicapped is used but the term sand bagger is always used when the apa league is mentioned.
let me give you a perfect example of some one " me " being wrong fully accused of sand bagging.
2 weeks ago i faced a 7 in 9 ball on fri night.. i am a 5. i won 38-32. the following morning i went to a city tournament and had some one tell me that after i left fri night the 7 was going around to every one and complaining i was a sand bagger. i was told that he also called the lo from the pool hall and complained about me.
now here is the kicker..... 2 weeks prior to me beating him we faced his team in tri cups where i lost to his daughter in law. we were tied and it was the last match. when i lost it put us out of the tri cups.
here is the real kicker.... she is a friggin 2. now any one with half a brain knows you are not gonna lay low in one of the most important matches all year to keep your handicap down and then play like efren 2 weeks later in a regular session match that dont mean shit.
he did not say shit when his daughter in law puts us out of the trri cups but 2 weeks later he wants to complain to every one who will listen i am a sand bagger just because i beat him ?
i believe there are a whole lot of people in pool just like him who cry sand bagger when they lose.