Frank Goebel
September 19th, 2006, 09:28 PM
I'm interested in knowing if there are any oddities in how your leagues are going this season, and to kick it off, I have a good one.
I just did my standings for week three and recaps for week four (next Monday). My league is a match-play men's handicap with forced lineups, low to high average.
Week four is the most interesting week because it's the first night that the bowlers use the current season's average (if they bowled all nine games). And if a bowler had a particularly good (or bad) start, strange lineups can show between now and the next few weeks until averages stabilize.
Case in point: Our oldest bowler, Hugh, will turn 79 late December, and had a 175 average last season. He didn't bowl all summer (golfed), bowls only one league, and he had series of 600, 626, and finally a "realistic" 443 to put him at 185. As averages go on his team, he'll bowl second.
Now, the high average bowler from last season, D J, is just a month shy of 26, averaged a solid 230 last season (handicaps are 90% to 230). He too is a one-league bowler. Yet he's struggled, it would appear, the first three weeks. He's managed to average just 193. As averages go on his team, he'll bowl second. If his cousin hadn't missed a week, he might have been leading off.
Enter week 4, and as luck of the draw would have it, these two teams will be facing each other. D J will be on the right end pair bowling against Hugh. Hugh will get a handicap of 40, (his book of 175 would have gotten 49), and D J will get 33 (and his book would have been zero). This match ought to be interesting.
Check out http://www.leaguesecretary.com/Includes/Reports/LeagueFiles.asp?SiteID=1&LeagueID=6368. I have the team rosters listed by lane order, illustrating the lineups and averages; this anomaly is way down on 47-48, page 3. If one were to go back to week 2 or 1, book averages for all bowlers would appear. (I use book averages where applicable on the standings so bowlers can see how their lineups are applied.)
Oh...there's another oddity. Most here already know I'm disabled and not bowling. So is our treasurer, who hurt his knee somehow. So is our vice president, who had rotator cuff surgery (bowling arm). Only the president is bowling....
I just did my standings for week three and recaps for week four (next Monday). My league is a match-play men's handicap with forced lineups, low to high average.
Week four is the most interesting week because it's the first night that the bowlers use the current season's average (if they bowled all nine games). And if a bowler had a particularly good (or bad) start, strange lineups can show between now and the next few weeks until averages stabilize.
Case in point: Our oldest bowler, Hugh, will turn 79 late December, and had a 175 average last season. He didn't bowl all summer (golfed), bowls only one league, and he had series of 600, 626, and finally a "realistic" 443 to put him at 185. As averages go on his team, he'll bowl second.
Now, the high average bowler from last season, D J, is just a month shy of 26, averaged a solid 230 last season (handicaps are 90% to 230). He too is a one-league bowler. Yet he's struggled, it would appear, the first three weeks. He's managed to average just 193. As averages go on his team, he'll bowl second. If his cousin hadn't missed a week, he might have been leading off.
Enter week 4, and as luck of the draw would have it, these two teams will be facing each other. D J will be on the right end pair bowling against Hugh. Hugh will get a handicap of 40, (his book of 175 would have gotten 49), and D J will get 33 (and his book would have been zero). This match ought to be interesting.
Check out http://www.leaguesecretary.com/Includes/Reports/LeagueFiles.asp?SiteID=1&LeagueID=6368. I have the team rosters listed by lane order, illustrating the lineups and averages; this anomaly is way down on 47-48, page 3. If one were to go back to week 2 or 1, book averages for all bowlers would appear. (I use book averages where applicable on the standings so bowlers can see how their lineups are applied.)
Oh...there's another oddity. Most here already know I'm disabled and not bowling. So is our treasurer, who hurt his knee somehow. So is our vice president, who had rotator cuff surgery (bowling arm). Only the president is bowling....