Aslan's Scores (of the non-lady kind)

[Aslan]

Sunday Night Established Mixed League

Came into the night 4-4 bowling against another 4-4 team.

Week 3

640 Series: 211-226 (clean)-203

Was hoping for another shot at a Game 1 300, but left a 7-pin in the 5th and struggled with single-pins the rest of the game going 0-3 including a score-killer in the 9th.
X, X, X, X, 9 -, X, X, 7 /, 9 -, X 9 -.

Switched to the Brunswick Endeavor in the 2nd frame because I left a pocket 10 on both lanes at the end of Game 1 and was clearly deflecting on the frame 1 strike. The Endeavor was just punishing the pocket. Only failed to strike on a few shots where I missed my target. Better spare shooting than Game 1.
X, X, 9 /, X, X, X, 9 /, X, 9 /, X, S7 1.

Switched to the Fortera Exile (FE) after 3 straight opens in frames 2 through 4. Should have switched in frame 3 after yet another pocket 10-pin...but oh well. The FE doesn't have the same movement and board coverage that it did when it was newer, but it can still go long and make a nice move into the pocket...I just have to move a bit right to get it to work.
X, 9 -, S7 -, 8 1, 7 /, X, X, X, X, X 9 /.

PinPal Stats:
First Ball Average: 9.33
Strikes: 60%
Spares: 40% picked up

Single Pin spares: 50% (4/8)
Most common single-pin leave: 10-pin (6x)
Also left a single 2-pin and 7-pin.

Makeable spares: 54% (6/11)
Multiple Pin spares: 66% (2/3)
Most common multi-pin leave: 1-2-4 (2x)

Splits: 0% (0/2)

Average over 3 games: 211.33.
Average had I picked up all single-pin spares: 224.67.

Positives
- Bested the other team's anchor who is decent. He only has a book 185 average, but he's been bowling much better than that the first couple weeks.
- Was clearly the best bowler on the pair tonight.
- Always love adding to the clean games total.
- Always a good night when I bowl a 600+ series.
- Spare shooting improved after the abysmal Game 1 start.

Negatives
- See Below

I gotta keep improving on corner-pin spare conversion. The better I get and the more my form improves...the more corner pins I'm gonna leave and the less multi-pin, non-corner single-pins, and splits I'm gonna leave. I coulda averaged almost 225 tonight if I picked up just 4 corner-pins.

And I certainly am making things tough on myself (and our team)...because I think my average going into next week will be an astounding 207. So, I see some very rough weeks, in the future, in this league...until that average comes down to Earth.