Vdubtx's bowling scores

[Hampe]

Nice shooting dude.....and congrats on 1st place .

[vdubtx]

Nice shooting as usual Vdub! Was the position round last night the end of a quarter or third and you locked up 1st place or was it a middle of the schedule position round and you still have some weeks to go to hold onto 1st?

Thanks all. We were in week 27 of 34. We have another 7 weeks to hold on to first place. Feeling pretty confident that we will.

[bubba809]

Nice shooting vdub.

[vdubtx]

Thursday fun league.

Warm ups I was really sore. Had been working on stuff at home. Loosened up enough to get some of the kinks out.

Game 1 started with 10 pin, then ran off the next 7, before getting ball a bit inside my line and leaving a 4 pin, doubled in 10th and a 2-4 on a test shot in the fill for a 267. We won by 95 pins.

Game 2 got way too slow in first shot leaving big four. Struck and then struggled on right lane leaving a mixer 8 pin, 10 pin, strike, 10 pin, strike, too fast leaving 1-2-8-10, then made ball change on right side after struggling all game and punched out to win the game by 11 pins but only a 191.

Game 3 my ball changed worked(Hyper cell on left, Disturbed on right) and ran off front 7 before getting speed up slightly and leaving 4-8, 10 pin, strike to start 10th and then flagged a 10 pin for a 256. Had been a little while since I had missed a 10 pin. Needed to strike out to win game by 1 pin, but 10 pin got me that game and put an end to our roaring come back lol.

267-191-256 = 714

[Hampe]

Aw man....nothing worse than a ringing 10 in the 10th when you need a strike to win . Especially if it's a ball that felt good coming off your hand.....you get so hopeful watching it go down the lane, and then BAM.

At least it was only in the "fun" league

[Mike White]

Aw man....nothing worse than a ringing 10 in the 10th when you need a strike to win . Especially if it's a ball that felt good coming off your hand.....you get so hopeful watching it go down the lane, and then BAM.

At least it was only in the "fun" league

Worse than a ringing 10 pin, is when your team has a comfortable lead going into the 10th, and you leave a 2-4-10, only to have their anchor bowler strike out.

One guy on their team was celebrating each strike as they made their come from behind victory.

The problem was, they hadn't quite done their math correctly, so all I needed to do was pick up the 2-4 to win by one pin.

I told the celebrator, that he may have spiked the ball on the 5 yard line, then proceeded to get those 2 pins.

Talk about a sad face when the score showed up on the screen.

[vdubtx]

Tuesday competitive league.

Warmups I was sore again from household projects and took a little bit of time to warm up. My grip on the ball was the worst part, felt like I was going to drop the ball.

Game 1 started with a wide shot and a 2-4-8-10 split as my only open. Smash 9 pin, double, 10 pin, 4 bagger, 2 pin, and a test shot leaving 4-6-10 in the fill for a 223.

Game 2 10 pin, 4 bagger before leaving a smash 8 pin, 10 pin, 4 pin, strike, too much speed and 2-4-8, and strike in the fill trying another line and a 227.

Game 3 struck, too much speed 2-8, turkey, 10 pin, 4 pin(lanes really starting to move), 10 pin, 4 bagger to finish out with a 237.

223-227-237 = 687

As a team we lost first by 26 and then took last 2 and totals. Last 2 games, each member was 200+ with scores so we were clicking as a team. We are up 5 games in the league now. Have to keep it going!!

[vdubtx]

Thursday Fun League

Had good 2 first games having to play a tight line. Last game lost my shot and I was not getting good carry when I did hit pocket. 8-10 split and 6 10 pin leaves on the night.

235-224-169 = 628

Spare shooting was good on the night, all 10 pins converted.

[vdubtx]

Spent a little time today looking at some stats on PinPal. I looked at the last season and this season so far to see where I was at. Essentially at the same place I was last year in average. Take a look. Left side is last season(2013-14), right is 2014-15 season so far.



In 2 leagues just like last year. This year though, my averages for both houses are the same. Last year I was 12 pins higher on Thursdays than on Tuesday. Figured out some things on Tuesdays low volume-higher friction house.

Good thing to come out of my coaching lessons last summer and my practice throughout the fall season is my single pin spare shooting has improved. Single pin has improved a total of 4% points to last year. 10 pins are the biggest here as that is what I leave the most. Up to 90% conversion now vs. 86%. Other single pins are better than last year also. But, with 10 pins, I am leaving more 10 pins this year. I looked at it as how many I leave per 10 frames and I am leaving 1.11 per game vs 1.04 last year. Also took a step further listing multi-pin spares, which was a bit worse than last year as well as my most left splits.






One thing I was hoping to come out of going through this exercise is a smoking gun as to what I am doing and what I can do to improve. It appears that I am leaving more lighter pocket hits(2 pins, 2-8's, 2-4-5's, and 2-4-5-8(buckets) this year vs. last year. Most likely cause would be an issue with speed control. Think with the 2-4-5 and bucket, I will start going straighter at those in my next practices to see how that turns out. Remembering back to when I do miss those, it is typically the 5 pin that is left standing.

Some things to work on in my next few practices leading up to State tournament in April and then Nationals in May. Will be getting some practice on the National lane patterns at the ITRC in the next couple weeks as well.

[Aslan]

Now THOSE are some solid stats!