QCPL
Minutes
October 8, 2019
Captains/Co-captains attending:
Lenny Pappas Jr. (Cercle 69) Rich Soares (Davignon IV,
Paul Cere, (Davignon 1), Bob Tanner (Eastside),
George Carter (My Friends), Cori
Donaldson, Larry Blais (Cercle 1),
John Laliberte, (Davignon 2) Jon
Robillard (Cercle 3),
Lenny Pappas Jr.
(Pres) Sue
Novak (Secretary),
Tom
LeBlanc (Treasurer),
Location: Cercle Meeting called to order: 6:30 PM
Absent: LeRonn Massey (British), Jim Kelly (Deerhead),
Eric Bourgeois (V-Pres)
Guest: Eric Novak
New
Business:
1.
Treasurers
Report – fees collected for some teams as well as player dues. Please pay as soon as possible to Tom
LeBlanc.
Old Business:
1.
Player fees - Please bring all remaining player fees to
the next meeting.
2.
How is the handicap working? The handicap, does
not seem to be working as well as we would like. It needs to be adjusted up a bit as the
strong teams can now play all their strong players all the time and only use
their weaker players when they don’t have enough players. This is a disadvantage to the weaker
teams. The strong teams will still come
out on top but the weaker teams will get more benefit from the handicap adjustment
against those teams but will still be equal to their fellow weaker teams. Several suggestions were made, including
going back to last year, going back to a straight team handicap or make the
player handicaps range from 3-7.5 with the 0.5 indicating a strong player at
that handicap. After much discussion it
was agreed to make the handicap 5/8 (.625) of the difference between team
scores. This will be implemented from
this week forward.
Make difference 5/8
of total difference. Individual
handicaps are set based on the following agreed upon criteria.
HANDICAP CRITERIA
Captains will be asked to rate their new players based on
their known and the criteria below and will have
the ability to start a Captains will be
asked to rate their new players based new player higher/lower than the starting
rating of 4 based on the player’s known ability to play pool.
3
Rating
= Beginner. May/may not shoot on a
regular basis. May shoot in other
leagues but maintains a low handicap.
Can run 2 or 3 balls from the table but probably cannot run more than
two pockets. Cannot play a reliable safe
without advice. However, someone who has
a high handicap in another league will not be this rating even though they are
just learning the game. Females will start at this rating unless
they maintain a high rating in other leagues.
4
Rating
= Learning the game, can probably run 3 – 5 balls from the table. Probably
plays pool on a regular basis.
Demonstrates some ball control but may be inconsistent. May be able to
run 3 - 4 pockets. Demonstrates some
ability to play a safe without assistance.
All new players, of “unknown”
ability, will start at this rating; actual rating will be established at next
captain’s meeting. At the first meeting,
after the league starts, handicap changes will be retroactive.
5 Rating = Can play the
game. Can run 5 or more balls from the
table. Demonstrates ball control. Able to run 3-5 pockets, may even be able to
run six. Has a good grasp of playing
safe. Players with a high rating in other leagues may start at this rating
based on their ability to play pool even though they are new to Roundy.
6
Rating
= Can run 7 or more balls from the table.
Demonstrate consistent ball control.
Able to run 6 pockets but not consistently. Ability to play a consistent safe.
7
Rating
= Can run the table. Can play a
consistent safe game. Has the ability to
run six on a consistent basis.
3.
Handicap
changes - The following players were brought up for consideration as
they are either new players to the league or prior to the start of the league
it was suggested their handicaps change.
Increased – Ken Bohtelho (4),
Joe Clark (5), Anthony Cunningham (5), Jay Spielburg (6), Jesse James (4), Sue
Lacroix (4),
Decreased – Arthur Tournidas
(3), Mark Lacroix (3), Andy Denoncourt (6), Junior Rodriguez (3),
No change – Marc Blais (5),
Mike Galinat Sr. (5),
Placed on watch list – Brett Belanger
(3), Kyle Kienia (3), Tim Ledoux (3), Luis Rivera (3), Keith Demarais (4), Russ
Lasaowski (4), John Leavitt (4), Jeff Picard (4), Scott Drew (3), Micah
Mitchell (3), Gary Manning (4), Dick Thibeault (5), Andy Denoncourt (6),
Christine DeFrancesco (3), Frank Roach (5), Gadi Fantauzi (6), Gary Gramatikas
(6), Ed Healy (3), Rick Bell (4), Dave Bolton (4), Christos Kaliantzis (4),
Jack Leva (4), Earle Whitney (5), Keith Laliberte (4), Judy Costigan (3), Angel
Olmeda (5)
Recently increased (was it
appropriate?) -
.
4.
Next
meeting will be November 14th at 6:30 PM, at the Davignon.
Respectfully,
Sue Novak