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Rescheduling Matches
On occasion, a match may need to be rescheduled due to inclement weather, conflicts with other pre- qualified League obligations, or other reasons. You are required to reschedule a match if your match conflicts with your opponent’s other pre-qualified League obligations and the opponent requests rescheduling. If you plan to reschedule a match, due to inclement weather, or for other reasons, you must notify the Local League Office.
Please use the following procedure:
1. Contact the Team Captain of the team you are scheduled to play in the match and notify them of your intent to reschedule.
2. Work with your opponent’s Team Captain to select a date and time to play the rescheduled match. Rescheduled matches must be played within two league weeks of the original scheduled match date. No make- up matches will be allowed in the last two weeks of the session, unless the Local League Office grants an exception, which will only occur as a result of special circumstances.
3. Teams must pay for the rescheduled match by the original scheduled match date or the non-paying team will not be awarded bonus points.
Inclement Weather
If you feel that weather conditions may result in League play being cancelled or postponed, check our Local League Website or Facebook for the most up-to-date information. Contact the Local League Office if you have additional questions or concerns, but only after you have checked the website. Most important, please be safe and do not risk injury if you feel the travel conditions are unsafe.
Teams in Default
Any team that does not show up for its match for two consecutive weeks will be deemed to be in default and will be dropped from the division.
Additionally, any team that has not paid their League fees for two consecutive weeks can be dropped from the Division. Teams who have failed to pay their League fees for two consecutive weeks will be notified of the past due status. If their account is not made current in a timely manner, the team will be deemed in default and may be dropped from the division. Teams that are in default are still responsible for paying their team fees for the remainder of the session. Each member of the defaulting team will be responsible for paying their share of the team fees owed. The defaulting team’s players will be suspended from the League until their portion of the fees is paid. The Local League Office has the right to assign different portions of the outstanding fees to individual players as it deems appropriate. If your team has a player that is past due on your roster, you will receive no points for that person’s match (even if they win) and no bonus points for any week they play while their fees are past due.
Preventing Forfeits
(Player May Play Twice on One Night)
Refer to Team Match Play in the General Rules section of the Official Team Manual, which states “YOU MAY ONLY PLAY ONCE in a team match.” However, to help prevent forfeits and to make it more likely matches are awarded on the table rather than by forfeit, the Lee County APA has chosen to adopt the Replay Rule approved by the APA National Office. This rule allows one player (the “Replay Player”) from a team (the “Replay Team”) to play twice on the same night in the following circumstances:
• The Replay Team does not have enough players present or cannot play the players it does have present without violating the Team Skill Level Limit rule (23-Rule). Teams utilizing the replay rule to avoid Team Skill Level Violations must have a player on the roster that would keep the team within the Team Skill Level Limit. If a team does not have a player available on the roster that could keep the team within the Team Skill Level Limit, then that team will forfeit the last match(es). For example, if a roster shows 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, that team cannot play 6, 6, 5, 3 and use the SL 3 in a replay. There would need to be another SL 3 or SL 2 (SL 1 IN 9-Ball) on the roster in order to do this because the team has to be able to make 23 without the replay rule. In this example, the team would exceed the 23-Rule.
• The Replay Team’s need to invoke the Replay Rule is not the result of a player being sent home and/or made unavailable. Attempts to take advantage of the Replay Rule should be reported to the Local League Office.
• The Replay Team notifies their opponent of the need to use/or potential need to use the Replay Rule prior to the start of the 4th individual match. The opposing team must allow the replay; they cannot demand the Replay Team forfeit a match.
• The opposing team gets to pick which player from the other team will be the Replay Player. The opposing team can pick any player present except those whose play would cause the Replay Team to violate the Team Skill Level Limit rule (23-Rule) or the Limited Senior Skill Level rule. All players who have already played must be available as a choice for the “replay” match.
• The “replay” must be played as the last match of the night. If a “replay” is used in a match other than the last match of the night, the re-played match and all subsequent matches will be forfeited by both teams.
• Both teams may utilize the Replay Rule on the same night if necessary. In this situation, both teams put up their own player. The team scheduled to put up a player in the 5th match designates their Replay Player first.
• Once a “replay” is used, the remaining matches must be forfeited, even if another player shows up. If another player from the Replay Team shows up prior to the start of the “replay” match, the “replay” match is cancelled and the new player must play.
• There is no limit on how often a team can use the Replay Rule during the regular session as long as the above criteria are met in each instance. The Replay Rule is not in affect during the last week of regular weekly League play of the session, Playoffs, Tri-Annual Tournaments or the World Qualifier.
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