APA skill level review--advice wanted

Celophanewrap said:
Not a big strategy guy, eh?
The APA isn't a league to develop money players, it's a league to develop interest.
With your post you take away at least several reasons to have a team captain.
You have to have something like a 23 rule. Without a 23 rule there would be no need
for novice players and with that the thought of developing new players goes away,
besides, most of the novice players are girls and we like that.
Our team, or more accurately the core of our team has been together for about 25
years. People come and go, some are family, some get married and move away,
sadly some have passed, some leave town with work, some just tire of playing and
move on to bowling, or darts, softball, and so on, but for whatever reason teams can
stay together. We loved it when the APA started the Double Jeopardy leagues. Our
roster went from 8 to 12 people and still whether 8 ball wins or 9 ball wins, or both do
we all share the victory, the money, the travel. Some people grow beyond the APA,
some people start that way. It's for development of the game and the beginning to
intermediate player. I think that you might be one of the people that started out beyond
the APA. It's not for everyone, and some of us love it. I can say confidently that I'm a
player that really doesn't belong in any other league, I've tried it, I don't really fit.
I'm a teacher (not professionally, but a natural teacher), so The APA was built for
someone like me. I read all the complaints and some are valid, some are just whining,
but early on I learned reasons for things that happen the way they do. Most of it is just
part of the game, just roll with it and you too can be a happy and satisfied APA player
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Such a great post. Greenie.
 
KMRUNOUT said:
Well, successful is a relative term. We went to Vegas last year on a total lucky circumstance. It was this player playing as a 3 against a 6 on the other team. The match was in sudden death, so it was just one rack. The 6 ran to the 8 and smashed at a bank that went in the wrong pocket. She won the match without sinking a ball!

I am of course glad that we are set to qualify again, but that is just one week out of the year. The other 50 weeks she has to play and try to enjoy herself in the regular weekly thing. It is tough to have fun when you ALWAYS lose. She has no chance of winning as a 4. Maybe if she hooks up with a 2 that can't pocket 1 ball in a row, she could win. We shall see. Sad thing though...

KMRUNOUT
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She ain't having too much fun anyway if she only played 6 matches in 20 weeks.
 
Good God who dug up this thread? The funny part about this thread is that as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I posted in it.

I guess I could post an update to my post as well. I quit playing APA handicap as I said and played Masters only. That lasted exactly one session. There was one team in my division that had four extremely slow players. So slow in fact that the team takes the top 4 spots for the slowest players I've ever seen. Obviously we didn't have to play them every time we played, but teams we were playing had to play them. Masters started at 11am and getting out at 930pm was the norm because of them. I immediately quit APA altogether because of it and played tournaments.

This year I came back after a layoff because of work and decided to get on an 8 ball team. LoL I feel bad about this, but the last I played 8 ball APA was 20 years ago and I was a 5. Needless to say I am a wolf in sheep's clothing right now.
 
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