This makes sense. I don’t know much about the leagues. All I know is my local hall has 2 weekly handicapped tournaments with money added which is nice. And my gf wants to play league to get better. So we are trying to start a team.
Info on starter ratings: https://www.playcsipool.com/fargorate-starter-ratings-explained.html
Thank you!
I don’t know the exact calculations to go up or down for fargorates. It’s a bit more complicated than bowling. Ive read on them a few times. Something about being based on your last 10-20 matches. And calculated off your opponents’ skill, and innings per game, and wins/losses.
That’s a decent system. Good to know. The link Garczar posted is good 2. That link is a bit confusing in the sense that a former open player starts at 500 or 525. My understanding of open players says they should be higher. Like advanced and open should be flip flopped. Or something like that.
I’m assuming it’s fargorate. The owner has always been pretty serious about pool. there are players coming in from other halls for the tournaments too. It not just an in league thing. 32 spots. Every time I’ve been there it’s been close to a full field. That would be hard to fill with only in house players or with calculating different rates from the other halls. I could very well be wrong though. I’ll find out for sure when I get off my ass and go ask!
That sounds nothing at all like how FargoRate works, and does have some resemblance to how the APA works. I'm thinking you may have read about several different rating systems and are now confusing them.
The definition of an open player as commonly used for decades, and what the word "open" means in regard to the open division at the BCAPL national event, are two different things and neither is based off of or has anything to do with the other. I'm not quite sure why the BCAPL chose to name the open division the open division as it doesn't seem to be particularly fitting and as you point out it invites some confusion, but that division was simply the "average decent player" division could be one way to think about it, and it was by far the biggest division that most of your reasonably serious long term players would fall into. There was a division under that for newer or less skilled players, and a couple of small divisions above that for really good to fantastic players, but most people fell into and played in the open division. These days I believe that have maximum allowed Fargo Ratings for each division, and in the pre-Fargo days they relied upon your results in their past tournaments and/or their results from other events and/or a players "known speed" to exclude you from divisions they felt were too easy for you.
Yeah, this is really good advice, if you are an idiot.
