Laura, Is this the same Laura I remember from a year ago posting about how terrible it is to sandbag and now I hear you talking like you want to hold down your SL. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that the definition of sandbagging? Shouldn't you be playing every game the best you can? LOL
When a 9 gets stuck playing a 3 who's fault is that? Are you putting the 9 up blind? Then you are asking for the other team to play their lowest SL. Why aren't you holding him back until they put up their high SL? Our 2's are our 7 killers! But the 9 should use a matchup like that as a good learning drill. He will really have to play well to beat a 3. No 9's around here. Just a couple 8's. Seems to me that a 9 in APA is a waste. I would rather have 3 pretty good 3's rather than one 9. And so would the APA League.
I believe the APA uses the last 20 matches played to achieve a SL. So if you start out in the APA and happen to play above your head the first few weeks it will take some time before before your SL gets back down to where it belongs. Like 20 long weeks.
When my teammates start complaining about how their opponent shouldn't be a 3. Saying he don't play like no 3. I say, you're right, he should be a 2. And you are playing like a 3 not a 4. You want some cheese with that whine? And sometimes when the opposing team has a 3 playing exceptionally well I will tell their captain the way she is playing she shouldn't be a 3. And just when he is expecting me to say she should be a 4 I say she should be a 2. Then he tries to convince me she should be a 4 before he realizes what happened.
2,3,4,5 what difference does it matter? They are all ball bangers. Sometimes they play well, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are sober, sometimes they are drunk. Sometimes they care, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are high, sometimes they are not. It all evens out. But they always seem to enjoy themselves and have fun. And that is all it is about.
If your scorekeeper has no idea what a defensive shot is then they can't mark it on the scoresheet and you are giving the other player a big advantage.
Jake
When a 9 gets stuck playing a 3 who's fault is that? Are you putting the 9 up blind? Then you are asking for the other team to play their lowest SL. Why aren't you holding him back until they put up their high SL? Our 2's are our 7 killers! But the 9 should use a matchup like that as a good learning drill. He will really have to play well to beat a 3. No 9's around here. Just a couple 8's. Seems to me that a 9 in APA is a waste. I would rather have 3 pretty good 3's rather than one 9. And so would the APA League.
I believe the APA uses the last 20 matches played to achieve a SL. So if you start out in the APA and happen to play above your head the first few weeks it will take some time before before your SL gets back down to where it belongs. Like 20 long weeks.
When my teammates start complaining about how their opponent shouldn't be a 3. Saying he don't play like no 3. I say, you're right, he should be a 2. And you are playing like a 3 not a 4. You want some cheese with that whine? And sometimes when the opposing team has a 3 playing exceptionally well I will tell their captain the way she is playing she shouldn't be a 3. And just when he is expecting me to say she should be a 4 I say she should be a 2. Then he tries to convince me she should be a 4 before he realizes what happened.
2,3,4,5 what difference does it matter? They are all ball bangers. Sometimes they play well, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are sober, sometimes they are drunk. Sometimes they care, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are high, sometimes they are not. It all evens out. But they always seem to enjoy themselves and have fun. And that is all it is about.
If your scorekeeper has no idea what a defensive shot is then they can't mark it on the scoresheet and you are giving the other player a big advantage.
Jake
