Why is the APA so frowned upon?

[loggerhead12]

If you're just sitting around waiting to play, you're doing it wrong.

You should be:
- scoring someone else's match
- discussing with your teammates how you'd play a shot (with 2-3 active tables there is *plenty* of opportunity to learn/teach, as new shots come up every 30 seconds or so)
- helping with timeouts

Being bored is a choice.

 

[BadBeef67]

I think the APA is great in normalizing ball in hand rules for casual pool.

And while slop can be annoying (when you're on the wrong end of it), I don't think it's as big of a deal as people think. I see it happen only occasionally among better players and weaker players aren't running out in fewer than maybe 5 innings anyway.

Also how a player reacts to a sloppy shot. A respectful wave to your opponent acknowledging "That wasn't what I meant to do". Opposed to fist pumps and hollering "Gotta love that APA BABY!".

 

[Lowell]

Also how a player reacts to a sloppy shot. A respectful wave to your opponent acknowledging "That wasn't what I meant to do". Opposed to fist pumps and hollering "Gotta love that APA BABY!".

Yeah I just give a quick wave if it's a particularly bad slop

 

[iusedtoberich]

the world is one where apa organizes tournaments. it wasn't true doub elim. in the winners bracket final it was all or nothing. the loser is out and does not get a chance in the losers bracket. so nobody wanted to play the team that was stacked with 3 players over 650 fargo. they wanted to go to the losers bracket where there was also a trip to vegas that was way easier to win (one on the winners side and one on the losers side). on the winners side it was an almost guaranteed loss against the stacked team...

my team (who was the second best team in the entire league other than the stacked team) got to be the lucky "winners" to get to the final of the winners bracket because nobody wanted to be there. even though our team is good it was really no match. fargo stats put us at about a 9 percent chance of winning. so we only had one loss and then out of the tournament. every other team got to take a loss and go to the losers bracket but us.

It was by far the dumbest playoffs I've ever played in.

I should add the team that dumped on us did in fact go on to win the trip to vegas on the losers bracket. so yeah

If you're speaking in FargoRate language, you shouldn't even be in an APA league. Quit, and go gamble.

 

[dendweller]

If you're just sitting around waiting to play, you're doing it wrong.

You should be:
- scoring someone else's match
- discussing with your teammates how you'd play a shot (with 2-3 active tables there is *plenty* of opportunity to learn/teach, as new shots come up every 30 seconds or so)
- helping with timeouts

Being bored is a choice.

You don't actually discuss the shot with the player that is playing the match do you?

 

[loggerhead12]

You don't actually discuss the shot with the player that is playing the match do you?

Not while the player is at the table unless he or she calls a time out.

 

[dendweller]

Not while the player is at the table unless he or she calls a time out.

I play on a team occasionally. Basically, I'm the alternate is someone can't make it. The idea of talking for others about what shot I should take is foreign to me. I kind of let them know the best chance they have of me winning is if they leave me alone. I'm not so good a team pool.

 

[Bob Jewett]

I play on a team occasionally. Basically, I'm the alternate is someone can't make it. The idea of talking for others about what shot I should take is foreign to me. I kind of let them know the best chance they have of me winning is if they leave me alone. I'm not so good a team pool.

Some of the worst advice I've ever seen for a pool shot was by a team captain during at time-out. Absolutely clueless. The notion that the typical league player is going to learn anything useful during actual matches from their fellow players is questionable at best.