It's not that the handicaps benefit the better player...
It's that in the grand scheme of things, the better you get, the less a spot means. When you get to the 10-1 and 10-2 levels, you can spot most of the lesser players the table and it's little different from giving them the 7 out.
At higher levels, spots mean less.
If you have two 10-2's playing each other, they can alternate who gives who the 6 out, and for the most part, it will be a toss up as to which sets are won by who.
In a race to 7 the spot is going to come into play for two games at most and at that level a three pack nullifies that advantage and is just as likely to happen.
With spots at higher levels, the guy with the stronger in tune break is the most likely to win. But guess what, without a spot, the guy with the stronger more in tune break is more likely to win.
Now with two better players a larger spot like the six or seven out makes a bigger difference, because they are more likely to be able to capitalize successfully on combo/carom opportunities, but a 10-2 is not likely to get past the six and not run out to the nine. It happens but that's less than a game in a race to seven.
Regardless of the spots, the most likely thing is that the better players will win. Some people catch on to this and they are therefore less likely to want to continue to play week after week. This is why room owners tend to bar the better players. Now if a lesser player is getting a huge spot and they get on a streak, they can win, but the majority of the time the better player will win.
In the local tourney's I play in we have a A2, A, B, C, D rating system and in the five or so tourney's I've played in, the ONLY matches I lost were to other A2 players, even with the underrated players.
that's not to say that I can't lose to lesser players while giving up big spots, but it's not likely that better players will lose to lesser players.
Jaden
Well let's see. There was a big 8 and under tournament at Metros a couple weeks ago. The big winners were, wait for it, the 8's including one Eddie as i remember. All the cries about the handicap systems by the good players and players that don't play and still mostly the better players win. What's that mean? You might not like the handicap system but it still benefits the better player. So what's your argument exactly.
It's that in the grand scheme of things, the better you get, the less a spot means. When you get to the 10-1 and 10-2 levels, you can spot most of the lesser players the table and it's little different from giving them the 7 out.
At higher levels, spots mean less.
If you have two 10-2's playing each other, they can alternate who gives who the 6 out, and for the most part, it will be a toss up as to which sets are won by who.
In a race to 7 the spot is going to come into play for two games at most and at that level a three pack nullifies that advantage and is just as likely to happen.
With spots at higher levels, the guy with the stronger in tune break is the most likely to win. But guess what, without a spot, the guy with the stronger more in tune break is more likely to win.
Now with two better players a larger spot like the six or seven out makes a bigger difference, because they are more likely to be able to capitalize successfully on combo/carom opportunities, but a 10-2 is not likely to get past the six and not run out to the nine. It happens but that's less than a game in a race to seven.
Regardless of the spots, the most likely thing is that the better players will win. Some people catch on to this and they are therefore less likely to want to continue to play week after week. This is why room owners tend to bar the better players. Now if a lesser player is getting a huge spot and they get on a streak, they can win, but the majority of the time the better player will win.
In the local tourney's I play in we have a A2, A, B, C, D rating system and in the five or so tourney's I've played in, the ONLY matches I lost were to other A2 players, even with the underrated players.
that's not to say that I can't lose to lesser players while giving up big spots, but it's not likely that better players will lose to lesser players.
Jaden