NAPA Handicap System
The Handicap System was designed to give everyone a chance to have fun competing, no matter what your skill level is! Since the League Operators have no control of the player handicaps once submitted, it is very important to enter a player with a fair and correct handicap the first time. Rating a player to high (and they lose most of the time) causes them to not want to play anymore. Rating a player to low (and they win all the time) causes problems with other players. We rely on other players, captains, and the player themself to give us an honest and accurate feedback. We provide many tools for that as well.
A typical handicap system is a ranking of 2 - 7. NAPA is different. Our system ranks players from 0 to no upper limit! I know it sounds crazy but it works. The races are increased and each person is given a 50% of winning this way. We account for super 7's and players who can't shoot a ball in and everything in between.
Unlike other handicap systems, you do not have to count innings, count balls, or defensive shots which are all subjective and can be easily manipulated. This makes it much easier to score and gives a more accurate assessment of a player's skill level. EVERY handicap system is built on the premise of each player having a 50-50 chance of winning. How can it be fair if you hae a super 7 against a 2 with a 5-2 race? In NAPA that would be a 10-2 race.
If you have a handicap from another league it is easy. For example if you are a 3 in APA you add a 0 and add 10. So it would b 3 + 0 is 30 and add 10 which makes you a 40 in NAPA. We can convert any other national league handicap. If you do not have a handicap you would start out as a 50 as a male and 40 as a female. We also have a one question survey to help determine your handicap.
Cuespeed is your NAPA Handicap system. CueSpeed is an adaptation of the ELO System, created by Hungarian-American physics professor Arpad Elo in 1939. The CueSpeed adaptation was developed by Tony Heinz (the NAPA Founder) who saw a need for an ELO style handicapping system for pool and billiard leagues and tournaments, which at that time was not available.
With CueSpeed, all players should be given an initial rating that is reflective of their ability to play the game.After every match a player plays, their CueSpeed Rating is going to either go up, go down, or stay the same depending on their performance during the match. All players are considered provision during their first 20 matches. During this time period the player's CueSpeed rating is going to gyrate at multiple levels.After the 20th match a player's CueSpeed rating tends to plateau. From this point forward a player will grow in rating or decline in rating in small increments as the CueSpeed historical data for that player has determined a base range the player should fall into. There are certain trends in a player's performance that can cause a player's rating gyration to kick into higher or lower levels at any time after they are out of provisional phase. Streaking, extremely high performances or extremely low performances, player history, opponent history, the rating of both opponents in a match, league match or tournament match are just a few of the examples that can swing a players CueSpeed Rating. In CueSpeed, when two players are matched up against one another, a game race is assigned to each player based on their CueSpeed Rating and their opponent's CueSpeed Rating.
With CueSpeed, all players should be given an initial rating that is reflective of their ability to play the game.After every match a player plays, their CueSpeed Rating is going to either go up, go down, or stay the same depending on their performance during the match. All players are considered provision during their first 20 matches. During this time period the player's CueSpeed rating is going to gyrate at multiple levels.After the 20th match a player's CueSpeed rating tends to plateau. From this point forward a player will grow in rating or decline in rating in small increments as the CueSpeed historical data for that player has determined a base range the player should fall into. There are certain trends in a player's performance that can cause a player's rating gyration to kick into higher or lower levels at any time after they are out of provisional phase. Streaking, extremely high performances or extremely low performances, player history, opponent history, the rating of both opponents in a match, league match or tournament match are just a few of the examples that can swing a players CueSpeed Rating. In CueSpeed, when two players are matched up against one another, a game race is assigned to each player based on their CueSpeed Rating and their opponent's CueSpeed Rating.