League Play - Lifetime Play

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BarTableMan

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Just some advice from an 8-Ball league lifer...38 years of continuous weekly play.

If you want to enjoy EVERY league night, follow these guidelines or else you are going to have some CRAP nights.

Great goals: enjoy the social evening out while always trying to win your match and improve your game skills.

Poor goals: - my team must win at all costs (Involves intentional handicap manipulation.)
- my team must win (Worrying about other people's handicaps.)
- my team must win (Worrying about my own team member's handicaps.)
- mix drinking and thinking you're trying to do your best to win. NOT.
- make a bunch of money (That's a rare outcome. Forget about it.)

HAVE FUN TRYING TO WIN and you'll enjoy years of pool nights out.

EVERY league night is my "Vegas Championship". Beyond that...no drama. Just 38 years of having a blast with friends.
 
-Rules aren't life and death.
-Don't let someone else's bad attitude become contagious.
This is your free time, you can do whatever you choose, you choose pool league over every other activity. Act like it.
 
I joined a bar league team awhile back and the first week or so we played the other teams to establish our handicap.
My team captain who I just met asked me to sand bag to get a better handicap.
I told him no, I play the best I can every match and if that's not good I will quit.
He accepted that and I played on that team the whole session.
Sand bagging on a bar league team is stupid to me.
And we came in 3rd place for the session with no sand bagging.
 
Played bar leagues in the late 70's to early 80's. Quit pool mid 80's till about 2015 and wife and I took it up again. Last 4 years we've been shooting leagues. We belong to a great, well run league with 32 players. Most all our friends we have met through pool. My wife has made many women pool friends and for the last two years has been invited to shoot with multiple women's teams at state championships and such. I wouldn't trade what pool leagues have provided us for anything. Do you always agree with everything that happens in your league, no, but the option is for you to run your own league, no thanks. I'm sure there are some leagues that are not well run, but find another if that's the case. Accept leagues for what they are, and be willing to go with the Flo at times and you'll have a good time.
 
I have never sandbagged in a league, or as a captain ever asked a player to. What is the point? To get to vegas and receive some money to defray your cost? We are not hustling anyone and most everybody in my league knows everyone's skill as it is an established league. As a captain you can accomplish/engineer the same thing by putting people in unwinnable matchups. Sacrificing a player now and them exposes the weaker player to a higher ranked player can be instructive and with coaching they sometimes have a chance. As a captain I would consider matchups like this especially if we were winning in the session or the week. Of course I would be straight with my player and they would have to be willing to compete.

A higher ranked player just needs to try to win and not worry about capping up.
 
I had a bad experience with a league and have not played in one since.

My drinking team had a pool problem is what it was.

I'm a pool player so I am hear to play pool that's my enjoyment.

I'm not here to see some drunks bitching with each other
 
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