2024 Winter League Rules

Great news the next Waggon Pool League will start on Tuesday 8th October. I hope to see you all there at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.
 
For this league we have introduced a ‘Points Advantage’ system in an attempt to level the playing field to give all players of all capabilities a fairer chance of winning the league. This has been implemented by using the sum of your last four scoring weeks played to grade each player and assign a points Advantage and a points Multiplier. If you didn’t win a game one week, sore of 0, that week hasn’t been used. If you didn’t play and score points in 4 weeks of the last league you will be ungraded for now. The points advantage and multiplier based on 4 scoring weeks is applied as follows:
 
Greater than 8 points – 0 Advantage, Multiplier 1
7 and 8 points – 4 Advantage, 1.25 Multiplier
5 and 6 points – 6 Advantage, 1.5 Multiplier
4 points – 8 points Advantage, 1.75 Multiplier
 
For example: for someone who won 5 games over 4 scoring weeks, they will get a 6 point head start advantage and 1.5 points for every future game won. Whereas, someone who won 8 or more games over 4 scoring weeks have 0 points starting advantage and only 1 point for every future game won.
 
In addition, any player who wins all 4 games on a single league night will not only receive a chocolate Waggon Wheel they will also get a bonus point, giving them 5 points for winning all 4 games, as well as entry in to the finals knockout tournament.
 
Any new players to the league or anyone currently ungraded will be assessed and graded accordingly over 4 scoring weeks, with the appropriate advantage points and multiplier retrospectively applied.
 
We will also be having two Doubles nights during this next league, first on 12 November and second on 14th January. Doubles will be paired, 1 top league player paired with one bottom league player. Both players will be awarded equal points for the number of games won with the appropriate per player multiplier applied. For these Doubles nights to work we will need good attendance with a minimum of 16 players. Otherwise the night will revert to a normal singles night.
 
The Waggon and Horses (Seb) has once again kindly agreed to support this pool league and will be providing free Pizza’s for the opening night on 8th October and for each of the designated Double nights, as well as providing prize funds for the finals night. Thank you Seb, your support is very much appreciated. Please all make every effort to attend the new Tuesday nights pool league regularly. Without your attendance and support we will not be able to continue.
 
Given the above this new Waggon Pool League players starting points position is as shown below. Good luck to you all. Time to practice! 😀