If you're ranked a 5 and I'm a 7, you'd have to win 3 racks before I won 5 racks.
Practice, practice, and more practice will get you good in no time. I'm lucky in that I learned to play snooker and 3-cushion when I was about 9 years old, never played a rack of 8-ball or 9-ball until I was about 17.
APA skill rankings are based on a player's last 23 match scores, the skill level of their opponents, the total number of innings per match, and the number of defensive safeties played. Please make sure your scorekeeper keeps close tabs on marking the defensive shots as this is a critical element in the ranking system and can be abused if not closely watched. One thing about the APA system is that players can be ranked lower than their actual skill levels due to improper scorekeeping, which we affectionately refer to as "sandbagging".
Practice, practice, and more practice will get you good in no time. I'm lucky in that I learned to play snooker and 3-cushion when I was about 9 years old, never played a rack of 8-ball or 9-ball until I was about 17.
APA skill rankings are based on a player's last 23 match scores, the skill level of their opponents, the total number of innings per match, and the number of defensive safeties played. Please make sure your scorekeeper keeps close tabs on marking the defensive shots as this is a critical element in the ranking system and can be abused if not closely watched. One thing about the APA system is that players can be ranked lower than their actual skill levels due to improper scorekeeping, which we affectionately refer to as "sandbagging".
