Pool league scoring question

BigDeal52

BigDeal52

Don Pearce
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I play in a 8-ball team league in Houston. We score points each game; the winner gets 10 points the loser gets 1 point for each of his/her balls pocketed.

We had a funny thing happen and had trouble figuring out how to score it. Thought I would toss it out to you all and get all of the various opinions.

Our opponent broke the balls and pocketed a solid. We play that you are not assigned solid or stripes until a ball is legally pocketed after the break. So table is still open. Our opponent then shoots at a striped ball and pockets it but at the same time accidentally pockets the 8-ball. So he lost the game with the table still open. Our guy got 10 points because he won the game but what does the opponent get? 1 or 0 points?

You could say that since one stripe and one solid was down he should get 1 point. Or yiou could say since he never actually got pocession of the solid or stripes so he should get 0.

We asked our league director and he was as confused about it as us. He said to give him 1 point. We did because we were winning by quite a bit so it did not matter. But if it would have been a close match we may have discussed it further.

Just curious about what sort of opinions out there on this. Thanks in advance.
 
Vnea

VNEA scores it 10-0. Have encountered this a few times in tournaments.

No legal pocketed ball, no set is declared, no rights to any points.
 
I'd swear there was a another post about this exact topic within the last two days?
 
I'm pretty sure BCA would score it as 10-1, because you count all balls down even if it was made on a foul. But it is interesting that the game was lost before the groups had been chosen. :???:
 
BRussell said:
I'm pretty sure BCA would score it as 10-1, because you count all balls down even if it was made on a foul. But it is interesting that the game was lost before the groups had been chosen. :???:
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In our league an 8-ball pocketed in the wrong pocket or at the wrong time is a loss of game.
 
This seems to be a house rule question than general rule set (BCA, APA, VNEA). Do you have a link to your league's rules?

Where I play league, we use BCA rules as reference, and scoring & handicaps are house rules. Irregardless, league director's discretion trumps both. Especially when one wiseass tried to argue refunding his green fees on the technicality that he didn't play when he lost 7-0.

When my matches ended up hill-hill, one of my former league director would exclaim the handicaps works.
 
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ctyhntr said:
This seems to be a house rule question than general rule set (BCA, APA, VNEA). Do you have a link to your league's rules?

Where I play league, we use BCA rules as reference, and scoring & handicaps are house rules. Irregardless, league director's discretion trumps both. Especially when one wiseass tried to argue refunding his green fees on the technicality that he didn't play when he lost 7-0.

When my matches ended up hill-hill, one of my former league director would exclaim the handicaps works.
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We have league rules which is we follow the BCA rules with a couple of exceptions. But the BCA rules do not have anything about handicaps and such and our rules, I don't think, have anything to cover this. But thanks for bringing that up; this will make me read the rules which I have not done in quite some thime
 
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