Definition Help: "Make-able Spare"

[manke]

There always has to be smart *** in the bunch and that is normally Mike!!!! You better make sure everything you say is correct or he will find a flaw and exploite it.

[Mike White]

There always has to be smart *** in the bunch and that is normally Mike!!!! You better make sure everything you say is correct or he will find a flaw and exploite it.

Thats good, attack the messenger, but leave the message unquestioned.

You would have looked more intelligent had you actually found what was wrong with my response rather than resort to name calling.

I'll give you one more chance to find the flaw.

[vdubtx]

Thats good, attack the messenger, but leave the message unquestioned.

You would have looked more intelligent had you actually found what was wrong with my response rather than resort to name calling.

I'll give you one more chance to find the flaw.

He didn't question your response. Simply pointed out that you nit pick on people's posts and come across exactly as he pointed out.

[manke]

Mike you do it all the time. Why did you ask a question you know the answer to. Except to be little people.

[Mike White]

He didn't question your response. Simply pointed out that you nit pick on people's posts and come across exactly as he pointed out.

Blacksox floated a theory, and my response wasn't a nit pick, it attempted to show a significant problem with his theory.

My problem is, I didn't read his theory exactly as he wrote it.

His theory is an inclusive test, where I read it as a stand alone pass/fail test.

He is just saying, if the ball can hit all the pins, it is included as a makable spare.

I miss read it to also mean if the ball can't hit all the pins, it is excluded as a makable spare.

I then presented a case where a makable spare would have been excluded.

A complete "rule" for makable spares would have to be based on the amount of room for error.

I spare like 1-2-10 should be considered makable.

As is the 2-10, and 3-7

The 4-9, while occasionally made, has a smaller amount of room for error.

I showed last Sunday that a 4-6-10 can be made, but the expectation level is pretty low.

[Mudpuppy]

I've never seen an actual definition, but I would guess it would be any pin combination that is not a split or a washout. In terms of being makeable, virtually any spare is makeable, it's just a matter of the percentage that it is actually converted. Once you take out the splits and washouts, everything else is converted a majority of the time, with the dinner bucket and the 3-6-9-10 being the most difficult, though still makeable.

And I learned something new today - new terminology I will use early and often - the dinner bucket. Now I'm hungry.

[Mike White]

And I learned something new today - new terminology I will use early and often - the dinner bucket. Now I'm hungry.

For lefties that would be the 3-5-6-9, and 2-4-5-8 for righties.

A very common leave amongst the masses before reactive resin balls.

[Mudpuppy]

For lefties that would be the 3-5-6-9, and 2-4-5-8 for righties.

A very common leave amongst the masses before reactive resin balls.

Do you kno any lefties? lol

Thanks for the clarification.

So now in my bowling terminology aresenal I have:

Turkey
Hambone
Church
Dinner bucket
Ringing 10 (or 7)
Flat 10 (or 7)
Mixer
Big four
Rg
Tapped
Beer frame
Man in
Dead wood
Most important of all: munsoned

[vdubtx]

Blacksox floated a theory, and my response wasn't a nit pick, it attempted to show a significant problem with his theory.
Bla Bla Bla...lots of Aslanesque verbage.....

I know what Blacksox posted, and took it exactly how I think he posted it (not literal to having to have ball touch each of 10 pins). But, like Aslan, you take things overly literal. Are you guys brothers by chance?

[vdubtx]

And I learned something new today - new terminology I will use early and often - the dinner bucket. Now I'm hungry.

I have only heard it called the bucket.