This will keep them baggers inline!!

[rv driver]

not 100% true lol i owned up to my own dark and devious deed of sandbagging like 4 years ago.

yeah, but nobody here believes you...

[rv driver]

I wonder exactly what the standard of 'proof' is that someone is 'tanking' or. Is is just 'decided' by the league president, or is a trial conducted in front of a jury of league officers or team captains?

Nobody likes it when the other guy does it, and when someone bowls way over average someone jokingly invokes sandbags.. Once you levy that kind of charge and exact sanctions for the 'crime', you've thrown down the gauntlet and certainly driven a bowler and likely team(s) out of the league.

Everyone should be in favor of good sportsmanship, so perhaps just the codification of this rule is enough to discourage the practice.

In my experience, usually sandbagging is a short-term thing. It'd be easy enough to go back over the suspect's record and see what his averages are, how they've trended, and what changes have occurred.

[Blacksox1]

Just so you know, this rule is from a Asian bowling league. So their outlook on those cheating and making false accusations is probably different.

This beats getting a finger cut off.

[rv driver]

This beats getting a finger cut off.

I think the preferred punishment is cutting off the two middle fingers of the bowling hand...