How many balls does a house league need

[bowl1820]

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[MICHAEL]

I second rv driver. I'd also say 3 would be enough. or 3 and your spare ball. One can be for heavy to start, then middle of the road, and then one for when it breaks down.

You know on a typical house pattern, ( if that animal actually exists ),,, I am thinking 3 myself,,, but its going to be hard deciding the other ONE?

Deadly Aim

spare ball, my, new secret weapon for 10 pins,,, Sling Shot


Then what,, solid ball???? What about my new Byte??? or the New DV8 I got a month ago,,, Damn that second ball is going to be though to pick! My solid Lucid??? The Beatdown,,,, IQ pearl.... I have close to 20 balls...

MAYBE I NEED TO BRING 4 balls,,,, that would make it a little easier,,, 5 balls would make it real easy,,,, but Hey its a 6 ball bag, why not stick that extra one in my new storm 6 bagger for balance!!!

I think I have come up with a solution!!

6 balls, but only use 3,,,, maybe!!

[tccstudent]

My solid Lucid???

how did you turn a pearl ball into a solid?????????

If it is a house you are bowling league in you should be familiar enough with how that they play as to know which balls to bring. Normally one a house shot I have two balls in my bag that I would consider pulling out besides my plastic. My fusion and my genius. The only time the genius is coming out lately is when I cant carry the corners. Right now in summer leagues I am averaging 15 pins higher then what i finished in fall by mainly throwing a Mike White Special IQ Tour Fusion.

[Hampe]

If it's a center and conditions you're familiar with, you probably will never need more than 2 strike balls and 1 spare ball. If your house is like mine, and there's a 10% chance you never know what your gonna get on the lane, you might want to take 1-2 extra just in case (but DON'T feel obligated to use them just because they're there).

Bottom line Ice, take all 6 with you, just don't switch 'em so often. Lugging a 6 ball bag around is a good way to show off your guns .

[MICHAEL]

If it's a center and conditions you're familiar with, you probably will never need more than 2 strike balls and 1 spare ball. If your house is like mine, and there's a 10% chance you never know what your gonna get on the lane, you might want to take 1-2 extra just in case (but DON'T feel obligated to use them just because they're there).

Bottom line Ice, take all 6 with you, just don't switch 'em so often. Lugging a 6 ball bag around is a good way to show off your guns .

Good advise Hampe! Yes when I load that 6 ball bag, without taking it apart, that's when the guns come in handy! LOL (takes to long to take them apart)! Put the back seat down on my prius,,,, up and in!!! real quick, saves time, and at my age, that's a good thing!! (

[MICHAEL]

[QUOTE=tccstudent;110626]how did you turn a pearl ball into a solid?????????

MAGIC

[tccstudent]

[QUOTE=MICHAEL;110643]

how did you turn a pearl ball into a solid?????????

MAGIC

So can we call you MAGIC MIKE now

[Aslan]

Talk about perfect timing! For those of who don't know it yet, Bowling This Month is back up an running as an online publication. I just submitted my latest article this morning that deals with this very subject: how to set up a league arsenal and how many balls should be in it. If you haven't already done so, go to the BTM website and subscribe - it's well worth it.

I was going to ask for the link, but Bowl1820 was Johnny on the spot.

To offer my uneducated (cuz I aint read the article yet) opinion:

TWO THINGS:
1) I'd say 4.
2) It's more dependent on WHY you make ball changes.

You could bring 1000 bowling balls with you...so long as you only make 1-3 ball changes maximum. In which case...why bring 1000???

One of my pet peeves is actually people who bring 6-9 balls with them, on a THS shot, and they change balls for virtually no reason other than their last shot missed or didn't strike. I always say, it should be a RULE that IF you are going to make a ball change...you have to actually know WHY!!

I have 3 balls I use. I have a system for when I change from one to another to another to another. I can tell you, for a fact...so far this season...I have maybe had to make a ball change ONCE. On a league night, even with 5-person teams...it's maybe happened once in the 3rd game of the series...more than halfway through the 3rd game. The lanes just don't break down like they do for the pros. You have 10 players...playing all different lines...moving oil in every direction. Maybe part of that is I start at board 7. Maybe if you start at boards 9-11 (where most players are throwing) it changes faster. But if you're making a ball change a game...thats 3 balls plus a spare ball (total = 4).

As to my personal approach (uneducated at this point) to making an arsenal...some of it is what balls you currently have dependent on that...but GENERALLY....

- I would want one "big hook", angular, assymetric core ball.
- I would want one symmetric core, solid coverstock ball. (For when the above ball is moving way too much or isn't controllable)
- I would want one pearl or hybrid coverstock, symmetric core ball (For drier conditions when its tough keeping the ball right of the pocket)
- I would want ball used for spares, whether plastic, or urethane, or a low differential, pearl or hybrid reactive resin. (Because I don't like flattening out my wrist on my release)

Currently I don't have an "arsenal" because I lack the first one on the list. I'll be solving that problem in a week and a half or 2 1/2 weeks when I pay Mr. White a visit. By not having the first one on the list, I have had a LOT of trouble competing with folks on heavier oil with my non-existent rev rate. I don't have the revs to make either of my symmetric core balls (regardless of coverstocks) go out to the break point (from the inside) and get back to the pocket. I'm hoping (still just a theory) that a more aggressive core ball will help me with that and open up the left side of the lane to me. And ball drilling is important because if you have a ball that kinda fits in there...but maybe isn't exactly the right fit...rather than selling it on Ebay...getting it drilled a little more or less aggressively could get it to fit.

I acutally get made fun of each league night for using TWO balls!! 3 of the 5 players are beginners and don't understand why I don't throw the same ball at right side spares (anymore, I used to). I can't imagine their jeers when I start switching strike balls.

[Shaneshu87]

[QUOTE=tccstudent;110665]

So can we call you MAGIC MIKE now

YES! BAHAHAHA!

[MICHAEL]

[QUOTE=Aslan;110682]I was going to ask for the link, but Bowl1820 was Johnny on the spot.

To offer my uneducated (cuz I aint read the article yet) opinion:

TWO THINGS:
1) I'd say 4.
2) It's more dependent on WHY you make ball changes.

You could bring 1000 bowling balls with you...so long as you only make 1-3 ball changes maximum. In which case...why bring 1000???

One of my pet peeves is actually people who bring 6-9 balls with them, on a THS shot, and they change balls for virtually no reason other than their last shot missed or didn't strike. I always say, it should be a RULE that IF you are going to make a ball change...you have to actually know WHY!!

I have 3 balls I use. I have a system for when I change from one to another to another to another. I can tell you, for a fact...so far this season...I have maybe had to make a ball change ONCE. On a league night, even with 5-person teams...it's maybe happened once in the 3rd game of the series...more than halfway through the 3rd game. The lanes just don't break down like they do for the pros. You have 10 players...playing all different lines...moving oil in every direction. Maybe part of that is I start at board 7. Maybe if you start at boards 9-11 (where most players are throwing) it changes faster. But if you're making a ball change a game...thats 3 balls plus a spare ball (total = 4).

As to my personal approach (uneducated at this point) to making an arsenal...some of it is what balls you currently have dependent on that...but GENERALLY....

- I would want one "big hook", angular, assymetric core ball.
- I would want one symmetric core, solid coverstock ball. (For when the above ball is moving way too much or isn't controllable)
- I would want one pearl or hybrid coverstock, symmetric core ball (For drier conditions when its tough keeping the ball right of the pocket)
- I would want ball used for spares, whether plastic, or urethane, or a low differential, pearl or hybrid reactive resin. (Because I don't like flattening out my wrist on my release)

We think alike! I was thinking a huge angular Byte asymmetrical ball, but also the Deadly Aim which is also Asymmetiical, but a different movement into the pocket/ The BYTE is VERY snappy,,, where as the Deadl Aim does a nice gradual arc into the pocket on house oil!

Then I was thinking that IQ Pearl that gave me that perfect game a while back on house oil... symmetrical...

And the sling shot for pesky 10 pins, and a few others!