What is a B player?

Positively Ralf

Positively Ralf

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Tuned into that Tucson tournament last week(or was it two weeks ago?).

I'm new to 3 cushion and I've been to Carom Cafe in NYC tons of times due to my league playing there, but never really gave it much thought. I don't know why but watching that Tucson tournament really sparked an interest in playing this game. Needless to say I was confused on only a few things said. What I was mainly confused was at the term "B player". I'm assuming it means a step below pro. Or is it something else?
 
Yes, they were differentiating them by averages. I think they must average .700 or .750 and below to play in that 'B' tourney. The other tourney was open to anyone.
 
I asked this on Bert billiard page
Seems the a, b player level thing is another American thing like balkline 18.2



The rest of the world goes by average to determine level of play
Is what I get from the responses



Seiyul
have only seen these terms in the game of pool. An A player is a very strong amateur, one who is not as consistent as a professional but has close to a pro level of knowledge and occasionally reaches pro level play when they get very in stroke. A B player is one who has a good understanding but lacks the precision and the nuanced knowledge of an A player. A C player is someone who has learned the fundamentals (stance, bridge, stroke) but can only execute basic and easy shots with any consistency.

If I had to translate this into 3C averages, I would say C players are below 0.5, B players are 0.5 to 1.0, and A players would play 1.0 or above.


Bert
And then, there are people calling themselves C+, or A-minus players, and the rest of the world is supposed to understand what that means.Some of my best billiard friends are Americans, but as much as I like them, they are nuts. Why use the logic of the metric system, when you have gallons, feet and quarts? Why call it 0.650 when you can call it B+? Nuts, I tell you.
 
Amerikans are idiots

First let me say i was born an Amerikan and will probably die one....

I have been surreptitiously been keeping averages since the early 1970's of all Amerikan players and they are basically pathetic. Based on my knowledge of the players averages i have made a fair amount of money making book on various billiard matches over the years.

The Amerikan organization in charge of caroms [sort of an oxyoron] has consistently refused to rate players by average and still continues to do so despite the ease it could be done using computers. That is because the players would be too embarrassed if they really knew there true average.

In the late eighties/early nineties, when i stopped playing seriously i got to around 0.915, but never to 1.111 which was my goal. Last time i played was at Hopkins SBX 2016 and over the course of six games lost two 12-0 [a world record??? LOL] and won one making 12 billiards in 9 innings {1.350] so am i a C player or an A.

Amerikan players when they play a shot make their choice based on who hard a shot they will leave their opponent, THAT IS THEY ARE PLANNING TO MISS. I am exception to that rule in that every shot i play i am thinking about how good i can leave myself for my next shot; the rest of the world seems to play that way.

That is all i have to say about that........
 
We are Dennis

In the span of less than 100 yrs America went from probably some of the best ever in small game play

(Born in America not born in other countries and living in America
Schaeffer sr born in Wisconsin
Schaeffer was so dominant, they had to come up with newer more difficult balkline games
and hoppe born in New York )

To completely oblivious to these games, with just 3c being played in small communities, and straight rail in even smaller pockets


WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?!


All that knowledge is gone and no one is left to teach us how to play balkline
 
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