The APA gets bashed because there are people that have a less-than-favorable experience with it.
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I have played a long time in both APA and BCA and thoroughly enjoyed both of them for different reasons.
I think we need to look at the demographics of this site to figure out why the APA is so hated on here in comparison to the other leagues.
The APA gets bashed so much on here because the majority of posters on this forum are well above average or good to great players. The APA makes it hard or sometimes impossible for those types to even play in the league, let alone win anything. If that type of player manages to find themselves a team (which is hard to do if you don't play with a wife or girlfriend who is not very good) then on occasion they get beaten by a player who plays above their handicap. The good/great player gets pissed off because they think it is sandbagging and not just a player having a good day. They then realize that to them the league is no fun.
Lets face it, if more posters on this site were below average players, they would talk more about how they have fun and most likely complain that in the other leagues (BCA for example - although there is nothing wrong with BCA leagues) they can't compete becuase they aren't good enough (and they don't really care if they get better). The reason that there are not more below average players on this site is that they care to play pool 1 day a week, not think about it 24 hours a day.
The fact that the APA gets bashed on this site is not because it is a not a good league, it is just not a good league for the majority of people who post on this site.
Leagueguy