News & Events

A reminder that the preliminary round closing date for the 3 Stan Brooke Competitions is tomorrow Sunday 28th November.
For those matches where a result has not been received, then unless an extension has been granted by the competition secretary, then the rules state that the away player/team will go through by default.

We have recently been informed, about the sad passing of Dennis John Paterson a few months ago.
Some of you may just remember Dennis, many of you will not have come across Dennis at all.
He hasn't played for a number of years now, but when he did, Dennis was a larger than life character who played both Billiards and Snooker for many many years in the LBSO and the L&DB&SL before that, concentrating more on the 3-ball game towards the end of his playing time.
Our condolences and best wishes go to Dean and his family at this sad time.
Bob Patterson - on behalf of the LBSO Management Committee.

This weeks handicap review is now complete, please click on handicaps from the drop down menu to view.

New handicaps come into force from Monday 22nd November.

We are now into the 4th week of handicap reviews some players have had more than one adjustment due to their good/poor performance also we have at least one player who has had a manual adjustment rather than a computer generated recommendation, the manual adjustment is to try to prevent "yo yo" handicapping where players go up and down by the same amount. The aim of the handicap system is to find a handicap for players that is consistent to their ability.

There has also been one player given an additional points adjustment.

This player was put off 40 as a new player but it was brought to my attention he needed to be off a larger handicap than the maximum 40 new starter handicap, so I have tried to address this by giving more than suggested by the computer recommendation.

There are other players who are being monitored and if required will be adjusted accordingly.

This weeks handicap review is now complete. Please click on handicaps from the drop down menu to view.

New handicaps come into force from Monday 15th November.

The Preliminary and 1st Round draws for both the Sykes Cup and Lee Len Pairs have now been made, please competition tab for more details.

Closing dates:

Preliminary Round Sunday 12th December, 1st Round 16th January

The second handicap review of the new season is now complete please click on handicaps from the drop down menu to view.

New handicaps come into force from Monday 8th November.

The deadline for entries has now been extended for a further week.

Closing date:
Sunday 7th November

The league tables are now active on the website.

Some of the leagues have teams that are no longer playing in the leagues this has been sent to the website designer for adjustment and will be done ASAP.

All the teams that are active have the correct data showing.

The first handicap review has now taken place for the 2021/22 season.

Here is a brief outline of the handicap criteria.

If a player wins/loses 4 frames by a winning/losing margin of +/- 25 points per frame a handicap review will take place.

The amount of adjustment is dependant on the win/loss margin.

If a player has a 6 frame win/loss margin they will have a handicap review whatever the win/loss points margin is.

The first adjustment for any player will be decided by the websites automatic recommendation if it is the second or more adjustment it is done manually to try to find "middle ground" for the players handicap rather than going up and down by the same amount this is to prevent players "yo yo" handicap adjustments.

The first handicap review of the new season is now complete please click on handicaps from the drop down menu to view.

New handicaps come into force Monday 1st November.