Quote Originally Posted by Hampe View Post
Wow....100% of 200 that's crazy. I think most of the leagues/tournaments around here are 60% of 200.
Our local USBC tournament uses 100% of 230 with a maximum handicap of 90. In other words any one who averages 140 or less gets 90 pins handicap. The first season that I bowled lefty I entered with a 130 something average, shot 263 the first game, and bowled well enough the other two to cash in both singles and doubles.

The USBC published a summary of a study on handicaps awhile back. Even at 100% handicap, most of the time the winning team will be from the top half of the league based on average. Only at 114% do bottom half teams win as often as upper half teams.


And to Ball99999's original question, the whole point of handicaps is to make things more competitive. The idea or perhaps the ideal is the all matches will be close enough that each game comes down to the last frame with neither team having the game locked up, and total wood still in doubt right to the last frame of the last game.