Metro East Billiard League (MEBL) was established in 1982.

Each team currently consists of a roster with a maximum of 10 players with 5 players shooting each night. The majority of our teams consist of good friends and family getting out for a night having a good time while shooting competitively. 

COST TO PLAY:  Cost per week/division is $7.00 per person, with no membership fees.

SPONSORSHIP:  Sponsor fees are $35.00 per winter or summer session, from whichever bar/tavern a team chooses to shoot out of that is geographically reasonable for traveling by other teams.

BOARD MEMBERS: MEBL’s operator handles all financial aspects, sign ups, statistics, and the overall running of the league. MEBL also has 3 board members that offer opinions on situations that might come up during the year, along with the placement of teams into divisions at the beginning of the year, and possible rule changes that the players have shown an interest in voting on for the next year. 

RULE CHANGES: This is a player’s league. Each year players bring up suggestions they would like to see different than it currently is. These suggestions are talked over with the board members for possible change for the next session.

WINTER LEAGUE: Usually starts on the first Mon/Tue/Wed of October and runs for 24 weeks. It actually may be 25 or 26 weeks depending on how dates fall on the calendar; we don’t shoot Thanksgiving Eve, Christmas Eve or Day, or New Year’s Eve or Day. Sign up fliers are put out the first week of August for this, with actual signing up done the first week of September, and you’re playing the first week of October.

SUMMER LEAGUE: Everyone always asks about a short summer league for 15 to 18 weeks but it depends on demand each year. A lot of players put their sticks up for the summer and wait for winter. MEBL offers summer league if there are at least enough for an 8 team division for that league.

DIVISIONS: There are currently seven branches of MEBL: MEN’S, WOMEN’S, METRO, COED NORTH, COED SOUTH, ROUND ROBIN NORTH, and ROUND ROBIN SOUTH. 

Coed teams must have exactly a 2-3 or 3-2 ratio of men and women shooting on their team each night. Metro can be any 5 players, man or woman shooting each night. Men’s is on Monday nights and Women’s league is on Tuesday nights with I270 being the north limit and I64 being the southern limit. A maximum of 14 teams can be placed in a division which is perfect, each team shoots all the other teams twice, once at home, and once away at their bar. Teams are placed in divisions by last year’s statistics of their player’s averages or their team’s final place they were in.

TOURNAMENTS: Unless otherwise posted, all MEBL tournaments are a $10 entry with a 30% match for OPEN tournaments that everyone is eligible to play in,  for a 130% payout.