– ABCD rating system
– Accu-Stats TPA
– APA handicapping system
– simplified APA league handicapping system
– Arizona 1-10 rating system (ARS)
– Billiard University (BU) playing-ability rating system
– CompuSport CSR
– Elo rating and handicapping system
– Equal Offense rating drill
– Fargo rating drill
– FargoRate rating and handicapping system
– 15-ball-rotation rating drill
– 14.1 straight-pool rating system
– Hopkins Q Skill rating system
– National Pool League (NPL) rating system
– 9-ball-ghost rating drill
– Playing Ability Test (PAT)
– “playing the ghost” rating drills
– Pool Quotient (PQ) progressive-drill ability test
– Runout Drill System (RDS)
– table difficulty factor for adjusting rating scores
– 10-ball-ghost rating drill
– Tournament Performance Average (TPA)
The BU Rating Comparison table below shows how various player rating systems compare to commonly used handicapping systems.
For more information, see “Player Ratings” (BD, December, 2020).
Various other drills can also be used to rate and track improvement of players.
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