What's the difference between Skill levels in APA

[thyme3421]

If you had a match that lasted 86 innings
you don't need to worry much about being called a sandbagger...

Seriously man, how long did that match take?

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All 3 games were safety battles from the break... and somehow both of us only had 3 defensive shots marked

I'm not sure exactly how long it took... I know I ordered 3 beers and a shot from the waitress during the game though...... I guess that's kind of sort of a measurement of time (about 90-105 minutes?)

 

[trustyrusty]

That being said, if you are a "known" player - lets say you play amateuer events for years in your area and you are known as a serious B player - the APA manual does state that you should go in something closer to your actual handicap and not start as a "new" 4. I can't believe anyone actually enforces/submits to that rule though. Here's the rule: "A League Operator is authorized to assign special skill levels
and lowest attainables to new players who are known highly skilled players or
to players who have previously established skill levels in another format" I think that pretty much only applies to people that would be 6's and 7's though.[/QUOTE]

The 7 on my team had that rule inforced...LOL - not that he shouldn't have. LO started him as a 7 and he promptly lost his first 3 matches...no decline - he asked if he'd go down, and the LO said, "no way". He then went 9-1 the rest of the session

 

[juggler314]

capping it off

Not that people really read weeks old threads...but just to cap the whole thing off...I just got raised to a 7 in my league! Sigh...

 

[s'portplayer]

I knew it! Seriously though I'm glad my theory comes out true, it makes total sense as to why the SL's are so far out of whack. And yeah only the best 7's in manhattan regularly win matches in a total of 1-2 innings. I'm a pretty strong 6 and I am hovering around a 2 innings/game average...

I have tried over the past few years to get my teammates (the lower SL ones) to come out and practice on weekends etc, but there's just a lack of interest for that sort of discipline. It's also *incredibly* expensive to play pool in manhattan Even in bars tables are all slowly migrating to $2/game...and that can go *fast*.

WOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! $2 a game? We still have a few places that are 50 cents a game, but by and far 75 cents is the norm, occassionally a $1 table but few and far between.

Makes me appreciate the free pool before 7:00 p.m. at several places around town.