What a fargo rate says about one game

A fargo rate is FargoRate's running picture of results. The homepage grounds it in games won and lost. If two players carry the same rating, the system calls that matchup even. That is a statement about a large history of games, not a promise about the next rack on a website that never reads the number. You can be even on paper and still play a poor safety today.

This page explains the public description. It does not pretend to be the rating site, and it does not pretend the rating settles a pot. Settlement on this site is still the 8-ball replay, rating or no rating.

FargoRate is a public rating built from games won and lost. This table does not read it. Equal-stake settlement is on 8 ball pool online.

The technique next to this is APA skill levels, the Cup note that uses FargoRate, and equal stakes, not a price. The group is the skill wagers guides.

The match is the 8-ball table. A finished rack can be checked on the fairness page. Adults 18 and over only, and only where a stake is legal. Limits are on responsible gambling.

FargoRate publishes a few ratios and this page stops there. Players about 100 points apart are about a 2:1 game-win ratio. About 200 points apart is about 4:1. About 300 points apart is about 8:1. A 50-point gap, a 12-point gap, or any smoother curve is not something this page will invent. If another article, including an APA note on the Mosconi Cup, prints its own illustration, that illustration stays attributed to that article.

There is no top and no bottom. The scale is not a percentage from 0 to 100. Pros often land around 700 to 800. Many league players land around 200 to 700. Those ranges are FargoRate's description of who tends to sit where. They are not a ladder this site climbs, and they are not a price list. A number in that band does not buy a discount on the fee.

Read the rating, then the table

• Same FargoRate means even, on FargoRate's own wording.
• Do not invent a formula past the 2:1, 4:1, and 8:1 gaps FargoRate publishes.
• Remember this site does not read your rating at the cashier.
• APA skill levels are a different system. They are not stored here either.
• A fair money match is equal stakes, not a hidden race.
• Keep the rating talk out of any chat that asks for a wallet seed.

FargoRate says it rates 8-ball, 9-ball, and 10-ball played on 7-foot or 9-foot tables. A global optimization runs daily at 6am GMT. That is the update rhythm on the homepage, not a live tick inside this match. Our playing surface is 2.54 m by 1.27 m, which is a 9-foot playing surface, and the game is 8-ball only. Games here are not described by FargoRate as an input, and this page will not claim they move anyone's rating.

The physics id stored with that rack replays shots. It does not look up a rating before the break. The rack seed shuffles colours. The better player, if there is one, has to aim. No random miss narrows the gap that FargoRate would have described as 2:1 or 8:1. The cloth is the same size for both seats, 2.54 m by 1.27 m, on every rack you post.

A fair money match is usually equal stakes, not a secret handicap. This site takes that sentence literally. You post the same dollars as the other player. The fee is 5% of the pot and the winner receives 95%. Nobody receives a shorter race because a rating says they are the underdog. If you want a handicapped race, you are describing league play, and the APA Equalizer is the system that league uses for skill levels. It is a different page.

Stakes remain $1, $2, $5, $10, $25, and $50. Three timeouts forfeit. You call a pocket only on the 8. The 8 on the break wins unless the cue ball scratches. None of those rules consults a rating. Bringing a FargoRate printout into a dispute will not change the replay. The replay is the settlement. Cue upgrades are not sold as a way to close a rating gap either.