Wednesday League: medium-oil synthetics, easier house shot, a good deal of hold in the middle, a lot of miss room to the outside.
Was playing wide tonight though. I wanted to use my Asylum...but even with a lot of practice time (most of both teams didn't practice)....I couldn't find a good line. So I abandoned that experiment and went back to what usually works (Lethal Revolver). But even the Le. Revolver was struggling to get back to the pocket. It just seemed like the heavy oil volume in the middle was there...but it was playing longer and wider. Not the usual dry 'bounce' on the outside. I moved my feet over 3 boards and my target over from the 6-board to the 5-board...but it was too far outside at that house.
586 Series: 188-176-222
Game 1 I chopped a couple easy spares and threw a first shot gutter in the 5th frame. Just couldn't seem to get back flush into the pocket.
Game 2 I had a couple splits, another first shot gutter, and somehow whiffed on a 1-2-9.
Game 3 I only had one open and that was on a friggin 8-pin.
PinPal Stats:
First Ball Average: 8.54 pins
Strikes: 51% (1 4-bagger, 3 turkeys, 2 doubles, and 1 single)
Spares: 50% picked up
Single Pin spares: 75% (3/4)
Most common single-pin leave: 10-pin (3x)
Only left the 8-pin and 10-pin.
Multiple Pin spares: 41% (5/12)
Most common multi-pin leaves were the 1-2 and a full rack (2x each)
Splits: 0% (0/2).
Average over 3 games: 195.33.
Average had I picked up 100% of single pin spare leaves: 199.00.
Well, no bracket winnings this week. I managed to win $15 in the poker game. It might be that my solids are working so well there because the pattern is actually a bit longer and wider than what is on Mondays. I definitely couldn't move inside and throw the pearls or even the Asylum...seemed like the dry just wasn't dry enough...or I just don't have the revs/axis rotation to make that shot. Played the whole night straight up the 5-board. That was a tough line to play because a miss by more than 1 board right and you're in the gutter.
Still a lot of work to be done.
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