APA handicaps?

Question

Does any1 play 8 & 9 ball with different handicaps if so which is higher and what skill level number is it and is this common

Answer 1

APA uses a number system.  However I don't know anything about it because I wouldn't shoot in an APA league.  I see all the posters and comercials with people sharking each other, and 8 ball breaks counting.  Play BCA!  Rankings for that are, B, A, AA, and Master. Good luck, and keep ranken em up!

Answer 2

Handicaps in APA 8 ball go up to 7. In 9 ball they go up to 9. Most people end up shooting with the same in both but the upper level players (6 and 7) typically have a higher handicap in 9 than they do in 8.

Answer 3

In APA the skill levels go from 2-7. (only women can be a 2 and men can only be as low as a 3). Women start as a level 3 and men start as a level 4. After that they look at your last 20 games. Then they drop the 10 worst games from those. Then they rate your performance from the remaining 10 and your skill level goes up or down from there. I like how Valley ranks players a little better. APA is a little confusing.

Also a 2 can play a 7. The 7 would have to win 6 games where the 2 would have to win 1 game.

Answer 4

Hi there.  In 9 ball, the handicaps range from 1-9, where 8 ball, the range is from 2-7.  If you were a 7 in 8 ball and had never played 9 ball, you would start out as a 9.

Each area APA franchise is privately owned, but follow the national APA rules.  Therefore, a league operator changes your handicaps themselves based on games won/lost percentanges, etc..

As one of the previous posters mentioned, in 8 ball women start off as a 3 (and can go down to a 2 at the lowest) and men start off as a 4 (and are only usually supposed to go down to a 3 at the lowest, but I have met a few male 2s in our league). In 9 ball they start off as a 4 for men and 2 for women.

The one poster WAS incorrect as far as the 7 playing a 2 in 8 ball.  In THAT case ONLY, it is a 7/2 race.  A 7 playing a 6 would be a 5/4 race, etc.  If it is a 5 playing a 4, the race would be 4/3 where usually the difference in the number of games is the difference between skill levels.

9 ball is a bit different as it is a race for certain points.  You get 1 point for each pocketed ball and 2 points for the 9 ball.  If you are a 1, you need to get 14 points to win and if you are a 9 you need 75.  It is a race to get your number of points first.  

This is the way the APA chooses to equalize their handicap system to make things fair.  You can read more in detail on it by clicking on this link:

http://www.poolplayers.com/equalizer.htm...

Hope this helps.