Straight Pool Average

[Chris]

One problem I find with equal offense as a practice game is that the score
seems to be determined more by the things you do wrong than the things you
do right. *This must be worse for the better players. *If a top player
averages 160 and starts an equal offense practice game and gets a 2 and an
8 for two of the first three innings, he's looking at another half hour
hoping at best to salvage a close-to-average score. *There is no chance of
recovering and having a *good* round.

mike page
fargo

One way to fix this would be to play 14 innings (instead of ten), and then disregard your two best and two worst innings for purposes of scoring.

 

[lewdo26]

One way to fix this would be to play 14 innings (instead of ten), and then disregard your two best and two worst innings for purposes of scoring.

Over 10 complete sessions (100 attempts), the errors will even themselves out. I just can't think ignoring one's errors would make for good practice. It takes too much of the pressure off, and doesn't give you enough feedback.

If a player is that good, he SHOULD go the extra mile to make up for errors he made in earlier attempts. You got an 8? How's about making 3 20s in a row to compensate for it? That simple.