One Pocket Handicaps

The rating differences below are on a scale where a player who
plays twice as well as another player will be rated 100 points
higher.  You can figure spots between two players from the spots
they got from a common opponent, assuming the games were fair.

Example: A gives B 9-7, so he is 37.8 rating points better than B.
B gives C 9-6 so he is 61.2 points better than C. A is then 99.0
points better than C and the closest spot listed is 14-7, which
requires a lot of ball spotting.  An option would be to alternate
between 9-5 and 10-5 for an average spot of 97.1.

You can also use the table below to see how different two spots
are.

A small warning: Depending on the levels of the players, an 8-4 
spot may be very different from a 12-6 spot even though in the
table they are only a couple of points apart. The longer game tends
to favor the better player because as the game wears on he gets more
control of the table and the weaker player will get fewer and fewer
shots. Or at least that's the theory among very good one pocket
players. If spots around 15 balls total count are used, the following
should be pretty close. Those preferred spots are marked with **. 

Two spots can be averaged by alternating between them as mentioned
above. The breaker should get the worse spot in each game as the
break is (usually) an advantage.

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Rating  Ball
Diff.   Spot

  11.0  14-13
  11.9  13-12
  12.9  12-11
  14.2  11-10
  15.7  10-9
  17.7   9-8 **
  20.1   8-7 **
  22.8  14-12
  23.4   7-6 **
  24.8  13-11
  27.1  12-10
  28.0   6-5
  29.9  11-9
  33.4  10-8
  34.7   5-4
  35.7  14-11
  37.8   9-7 **
  39.0  13-10
  42.9  12-9
  43.6   8-6 **
  45.7   4-3
  47.6  11-8
  49.9  14-10
  51.4   7-5
  53.6  10-7 **
  54.7  13-9
  60.5  12-8
  61.2   9-6 **
  62.7   6-4
  65.7  14-9
  67.1   3-2
  67.8  11-7
  71.5   8-5 **
  72.4  13-8
  77.0  10-6 **
  80.4   5-3
  80.7  12-7
  83.4  14-8
  86.1   7-4
  89.2   9-5 **
  91.2  11-6 **
  92.5  13-7
 103.5  14-7
 104.1  12-6
 105.0  10-5 **
 106.2   8-4
 108.4   6-3
 112.9   4-2
 116.0  13-6
 119.1  11-5 **
 123.9   9-4 **
 126.9  14-6
 127.2   2-1
 131.8   7-3
 132.1  12-5 **
 139.7  10-4 **
 143.9  13-5
 147.6   5-2
 152.0   8-3
 153.9  11-4 **
 154.9  14-5
 166.8  12-4 **
 169.7   9-3
 175.6   6-2
 178.6  13-4 **
 185.4  10-3 **
 189.6  14-4
 194.4   3-1
 199.0   7-2
 199.6  11-3 **
 212.5  12-3 **
 219.1   8-2
 224.4  13-3 **
 235.3  14-3 **
 236.8   9-2
 240.2   4-1
 252.6  10-2
 266.8  11-2 **
 275.0   5-1
 279.7  12-2 **
 291.6  13-2 **
 302.5  14-2 **
 303.0   6-1
 326.4   7-1
 346.6   8-1
 364.3   9-1
 380.0  10-1
 394.3  11-1
 407.2  12-1
 419.1  13-1
 430.0  14-1