Strategies for Putting Toghether a Championship Handicap Team

[mc_runner]

To clarify my earlier comment... basically, what Aslan said. If you have a team coming in who have never bowled before, they improve over the course of a season and go way over average more often than not by the end. But, if you have a team who is consistently 120 and bowls around there, they won't be competing well against a team with 200 averages, all else equal. The scaling handicap system certainly weighs into it too.

With that said it really annoys me when higher average bowlers complain about handicap and lower average people having an advantage. it's just not true and sounds like sour grapes. My viewpoint is, if you don't like it go bowl somewhere else (or we will).

[Hampe]

With that said it really annoys me when higher average bowlers complain about handicap and lower average people having an advantage. it's just not true and sounds like sour grapes. My viewpoint is, if you don't like it go bowl somewhere else (or we will).

Yea that always annoys me as well. Any time someone complains about the other team getting getting say 300 pins hcp, I'll point out to them that their team's avg. is 400 points higher, and ask them if they think it's any fun beating up on newbies who would have no chance at all to ever win a game against them.

[ALazySavage]

Large handicap gaps are simply a way for some higher level bowlers to blame losing on something other than their execution. Granted these are the same people who will only bowl on shots that they can average 220 and won't bowl in pattern leagues because their ego can't handle the fact that they are not as good as they claim.

[Aslan]

Large handicap gaps are simply a way for some higher level bowlers to blame losing on something other than their execution. Granted these are the same people who will only bowl on shots that they can average 220 and won't bowl in pattern leagues because their ego can't handle the fact that they are not as good as they claim.

THIS x4!!!