I play in our local county wide fun league. Pool is a fun sport and many of the players on these teams are just having a good time and representing their respective bars. Many have been playing for 30+ years at the same speed, mainly average bar players. Being that I just moved down from Seattle I am playing on my best friends bars team with several decent players and 2 or 3 terrible ones. So at best we are an average team, although our record has us 8th out of 50 teams.
There has been voices raised concerning the top 2 or 3 teams having stacked their teams with (pretty much) most of the best players in the county. They want to win, and have a team chemistry about it (high 5-ing after every win, hooraying, concentrating) which intimidates some teams in that they don't have fun. Well they are losing of course but they feel these teams are being poor sports. Those are the teams I want to be on since I hate losing and watching teammates miss 4 or 5 8balls/game.
I have since moved closer to work and am only 3 minutes from one of these bars, now my main hangout due to the larger tourneys and added money. I will be then playing on their team next year creating an even better "fun" league team for them.
does this happen in your area? I mean how is this different from stacking a bowling team with all the top rollers in the area and heading to state. Those are fun leagues too. That one night of their schedule has little impact on their output against the other "weak" teams in their division. After all the regular season is done and playoffs come around there gets 3 bracket tourneys...an 'A','B',and 'C' division based on total wins. So the top 16 teams play A, next 16 in B and the rest in C. So they will be playing their corresponding level of players. Now although my team will be in the middle of the 'A' bracket, we will get killed by those upper echelon teams since we have 3 weak players and they are all strong. I know that I am prepared for it, and wait for next year to be with my fellow strong teammates.
Just ranting.
There has been voices raised concerning the top 2 or 3 teams having stacked their teams with (pretty much) most of the best players in the county. They want to win, and have a team chemistry about it (high 5-ing after every win, hooraying, concentrating) which intimidates some teams in that they don't have fun. Well they are losing of course but they feel these teams are being poor sports. Those are the teams I want to be on since I hate losing and watching teammates miss 4 or 5 8balls/game.
I have since moved closer to work and am only 3 minutes from one of these bars, now my main hangout due to the larger tourneys and added money. I will be then playing on their team next year creating an even better "fun" league team for them.
does this happen in your area? I mean how is this different from stacking a bowling team with all the top rollers in the area and heading to state. Those are fun leagues too. That one night of their schedule has little impact on their output against the other "weak" teams in their division. After all the regular season is done and playoffs come around there gets 3 bracket tourneys...an 'A','B',and 'C' division based on total wins. So the top 16 teams play A, next 16 in B and the rest in C. So they will be playing their corresponding level of players. Now although my team will be in the middle of the 'A' bracket, we will get killed by those upper echelon teams since we have 3 weak players and they are all strong. I know that I am prepared for it, and wait for next year to be with my fellow strong teammates.
Just ranting.
