how are ya'll doing in league ?

Its been happening to me all week really,
apa team shit the bed
tuesday tournament shit the bed
wed bca shit the bed, me and the team, 3 players had zero wins for us

inexplicable

thursday bca, we`ll find out tonight i guess
 
I'm going stir crazy. 3 weeks without a league match. 2 more Sundays and we'll get to play again. I've not been slacking off though, been putting practice in. I feel my game has went up a lot in the last few weeks with a couple hiccups here and there. Nothing major, just finally learning what it is to work with the cue ball instead of against it.
 
Willowbrook Wolfy said:
Well this has to be said for everyone here regardless if the conversation is over. Yep I’m always drunk in league. So are half the players at the session. They are getting tipsy or getting high out front. Talking about being wasted should absolutely be acceptable in a league thread. The bars would be out of business if they ran leagues 7 days a week, like where I go, and everyone sipped on water. My fiancé and I spend $50 a session on food and drinks. Most of the time the drinks aren’t Coca Cola.
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I don't care if you talk about being drunk, stoned, or whatever, I'm no saint, trust me. The point I was trying to make is, you can't expect to play good when drinking. Regardless of what anyone says.
 
chefjeff said:
And I'm sure the bar owners thank you for your patronage.

My team spends at least $100 bucks a night at the bars we play in. At least. One bar kicked us out for "not buying enough beer." Seriously. My captain laughed in her face and we quit the place immediately. She had no clue how valuable we were to her week night take. (not to mention we got first place!)

That's only 20 bucks a piece of spending for a night of entertainment. With food and drink prices so high now, that's nothing.



Jeff Livingston
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Kicked an entire team out for not buying enough beer? Dumb@$$ owner who deserves to go out of business. Not really, but geez, really?!?
 
My 8-ball team won the wildcard playoff last night! I was scheduled to play last (my SL4 v SL7, 2-5 race) but team put the team match out of reach after 4 players, so I didn’t get to play. I was disappointed but I’ll live.

Huge load lifted: no captain BS, herding cats trying to get people to actually show up. I’m taking the summer session off. Work on my game at home, maybe enter a few singles tournaments here and there, regain love for the game, then consider joining a team in the fall session.
 
dquarasr said:
Kicked an entire team out for not buying enough beer? Dumb@$$ owner who deserves to go out of business. Not really, but geez, really?!?
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Really. We drink more beer than probably any other team on the league. I don't so much anymore, but our guys are younger than I am and they still like their beer and they have good jobs so they dont' mind spending the money. Then sometimes food, etc. Plus, we have fun so the other patrons get the vibe, so to speak.

We should have bar owners waiting in line for us.

We had a 1st place bar trophy for the place. We trashed it instead. These are not good things for the spirit of the game.

Last night, the other team just didn't show. No call, nothing. The league op is out of town so she wasn't any help. Went home at 8 with a forfeited win. Captain said, 'we're not doing a make-up match this time.'


Jeff Livingston
 
I’m sure this is probably not that rare, but it was the first time I’d ever seen it. A player was trying to sneak his solid 3 past a blocking 10. The balls got jammed in the pocket mouth. Pretty unusual.
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New season 3man , we lost because my sub I'm pretty sure tanks in League on purpose to drop his rating but in tournaments he's always balling.
I started by dogging an 8 but finished good with 27 of 30 and a bnr to close the night, and was the first ticket pulled for the 10ball, broke well but no shot after

Feeling like it'll be a good season for us
 
how do you evenly rotate players so that all get as equal amount of games in?

cause im starting a bca team with 7 that all want to play each week but cant, but trying to jot it down seems like itll be a chor each month
 
Texas Carom Club said:
how do you evenly rotate players so that all get as equal amount of games in?

cause im starting a bca team with 7 that all want to play each week but cant, but trying to jot it down seems like itll be a chor each month
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Make a schedule and stick to it. Some will get sick or whatever and that will change a bit at times.

Be sure to rotate yourself out, too.


Jeff Livingston
 
Texas Carom Club said:
how do you evenly rotate players so that all get as equal amount of games in?

cause im starting a bca team with 7 that all want to play each week but cant, but trying to jot it down seems like itll be a chor each month
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Some tips and strategies I have learned from 6 years being a captain...
1. I sit myself more than any other person on my time.
2. I never sit people on consecutive weeks if at all possible.
3. Get a schedule from your players on dates that they know in advance they won't be at league...
4. Encourage folks that show up EVERY SINGLE WEEK to take a night off from time to time.

But most important...get to the point where your members are "team first" type people. People who want to cause drama, who sandbag, who care only about their match...those type people I run off fairly quickly. I have found that when the individuals genuinely care about the success of the team, many problems resolve themselves.
 
We finished 3 points out of the Big Dawg title. And in the process accomplished something I have never seen in APA before....we beat our opponents 15-0. One person in our league has over 5k matches in APA and says she has never witnessed it either.

Good news for me is my losing streak is finally over. I smoked a guy 5-0 in 7 total innings with a BnR. I 100% credit the game Bowliards from the thread in the main page. It definitely slowed me down, caused me to re-center, refocus, and concentrate much more on cue ball control .

We have playoffs next week, so hopefully we will qualify for TRI-Cups. I finally have a team that I am pretty happy with, and with a wide range of handicaps. Right now we have a strong 7, weakish 6, two average 5's, a strong 4, average 4, average 3, and an average 2. I hope we can keep it together for at least the next few sessions. Having to split our team last year due to handicap issues was hard, but I had no idea it would take so long to get back up to speed.

I have had to "invite" several people to not come back over the past year and a half:
  • 38 year old woman who, if I didn't play her first, would be so drunk she couldn't hit the cue ball with a boat paddle.,
  • The guy who sandbagged so bad I once watched him take 6 shots at the 8 ball, just to get his innings up, and shot an entire match with his off hand, just to get his innings up
  • The 24 year old girl who took it as personal insult, rolled her eyes, sighed, and pouted if I called a timeout to try and help her SL 2 shooting azz...
  • The sore loser who tried to shark his opponent after EVERY shot by stating "that's a ball in hand for me, right?" He would also accuse most of the people who beat him of sandbagging or some other type of shenanigans, which almost always led to threats, then yelling, then invitations to "step outside".
Yep, there have been some real winners come through. Luckily my sanity has stayed intact. Mostly.
 
Texas Carom Club said:
how do you evenly rotate players so that all get as equal amount of games in?

cause im starting a bca team with 7 that all want to play each week but cant, but trying to jot it down seems like itll be a chor each month
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That kind of stinks. Sounds like where you play doesn’t have a whole lot of tables. The team I’m on has 8 people but it’s also a dj league so everyone gets to play at least once a week.

A good way to do it is also to get a few players that play league on other nights or days also. The ones on your team who don’t probably are going to want to play every week. I would quit league if I didn’t play weekly.
 
Willowbrook Wolfy said:
That kind of stinks. Sounds like where you play doesn’t have a whole lot of tables. The team I’m on has 8 people but it’s also a dj league so everyone gets to play at least once a week.

A good way to do it is also to get a few players that play league on other nights or days also. The ones on your team who don’t probably are going to want to play every week. I would quit league if I didn’t play weekly.
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you can only play 5 a night no matter apa or bca
being on a team its a given your not gonna play every week


i play 3 leagues , bca i play each week, my apa team i dont need to and usually just wait for a good matchup against a strong player
 
I joined a TAP league the other day. I was at the pool hall practicing and the owner was trying to put together a BB 8B team and next thing I know I’m filling out paperwork.

I had my first match Monday and won pretty easily. They started me out as a 5. I don’t know how high tap goes but it felt like stealing.

I’m also joining this flow masters league in about a month. Big table race to 6, no handicap, 8,9,10 ball each match. There are some serious players in there that I’ve seen so that should be good experience. I need to up my competitive pedigree 😂
 
Last night of weekly league for me tomorrow. We clinched the season a 2 wks ago. Playing for funnizes now. Covid screwed up season has us not doing playoffs. LO opted to balance bye weeks so the season numbers would be even keel. That forced the axing of the playoff weeks.

Won the same league's 'singles' tourney on Saturday. Limited numbers, strong field. I played decent enough to go undefeated.

My Masters team won the regular season and playoffs again this year on Sunday. Makes it 5yrs straight. I didn't even get to play this time around. Teammates had it covered. Which was good, because I was pretty tired after the battle on Saturday...lol

If anyone is going to be at the APA Vegas event in mid August. I'll be the drunk Canadian ;)
 
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