Quote Originally Posted by Mark O View Post
I see this all the time myself and unfortunately it's a part of the world we live in bowling in handicap leagues and handicap tournaments. Seems like everyone is looking for an advantage and they partake in "Average Management" which essentially is just a nice way of saying sandbagging. Really makes it tough for honest bowlers who represent their true average but sadly it is one of those things that is really hard to prove and enforce. As mentioned here too though, I also see my fair share of hot shots who I feel have never made a 10-pin in their lives because they simply don't care about spares. It's a strike or bust mentality and if they can't compete for the high game pot the game just goes straight into the toilet. That's probably more ego than sandbagging though.
Mostly I have been in leagues with bowlers in their 30's and older and have not really seen this happen until we got a couple of teams of hot shot 20 year old kids, I think I'm also going to talk about other ways to curb this.