[POOL] Game called for 6PM

Cunningham, Gregory S. gcunningham at anl.gov
Tue Feb 21 11:41:24 CST 2017


Unfortunately I won't be able to make it tonight. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 11:40 AM, John Valdes <j-valdes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> FYI for the new guys (and a reminder for the not so new guys), if a
> team doesn't have enough players for a night's matches, their opponent
> can choose to either take a forfeit or make up the match on another
> night.  Since most of us want to play pool and not collect wins, we
> almost always make up missed matches on another night.  However, the
> team that didn't a player will be assessed a penalty when the match is
> played; at that time, the non-offending team player has to win one
> game less that what the handicap matching would indicate.  If that
> would make the non-offending team player down to only having to win 1
> game for the match, then instead, the offending team player will have
> an additional game added to his match total.  So for example, if the
> normal handicaps matching is that the non-offending team has to win 3
> games to win the match and the offending team has to win 2 games, then
> the penalized matchup becomes 2 to 2.  On the other hand, if the
> normal matchup for the non-offending team is 2 games and the offending
> team is 2 games, then instead of being penalized as a 1:2 match, the
> offending team will have to win 1 more game, resulting in a 2:3
> match.
> 
> Martino, Paul L and myself played last week, so everyone else is
> eligible to play a makeup match tonight.  With the 2 make up matches,
> we have the rare opportunity of winning 7 matches in one night!  7
> wins would put us right back in the middle of the standings.
> 
> John


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