Spares

[vdubtx]

That's only televised, not throughout the tournament.

Correct, the article states it was televised stats.

[billf]

Get lucky on one 7-10 split in 10 attempts in one league and that's hard to believe? Nobody says I'll ever in my life make another one and I didn't think the stats were lifetime. Yes I try for some of them. I aim at the left side of the 7 pin and would bet dinner all the missed ones went in the left channel before the pin deck. I'm getting too old to throw the ball that hard anymore to get that needed deflection. I can't even remember the last time I had a spare with a speed over 20mph. Most of my misses go brooklyn whether I pull it inside or get it to the dry too soon. My common washout is the 1,3,6,8,10 wish is an easy conversion compared to most when throwing straight at it angled from the left side. I'm more curious to see what will happen now that we have synthetic lanes.

[bowl1820]

Get lucky on one 7-10 split in 10 attempts in one league and that's hard to believe? Nobody says I'll ever in my life make another one and I didn't think the stats were lifetime. Yes I try for some of them. I aim at the left side of the 7 pin and would bet dinner all the missed ones went in the left channel before the pin deck. I'm getting too old to throw the ball that hard anymore to get that needed deflection. I can't even remember the last time I had a spare with a speed over 20mph. Most of my misses go brooklyn whether I pull it inside or get it to the dry too soon. My common washout is the 1,3,6,8,10 wish is an easy conversion compared to most when throwing straight at it angled from the left side. I'm more curious to see what will happen now that we have synthetic lanes.

Sometimes it's not speed.

I saw a old woman one time, she tossed her plastic ball on the lane. It rolled & rolled & rolled headed for the 7. When it finally got there it just clipped the 7, it fell over and just rolled as pretty as you please across the pin deck and took out the 10.

One thing that helps with the 7-10 is what type of curtain is hanging in the pit. The ones that hung straight down would let the pin bounce off it better and more toward the 10 (or 7). The curved curtains that are around most places now, the pin just hits it and just goes dead and drops.

[vdubtx]

Get lucky on one 7-10 split in 10 attempts in one league and that's hard to believe? Nobody says I'll ever in my life make another one and I didn't think the stats were lifetime. Yes I try for some of them. I aim at the left side of the 7 pin and would bet dinner all the missed ones went in the left channel before the pin deck. I'm getting too old to throw the ball that hard anymore to get that needed deflection. I can't even remember the last time I had a spare with a speed over 20mph. Most of my misses go brooklyn whether I pull it inside or get it to the dry too soon. My common washout is the 1,3,6,8,10 wish is an easy conversion compared to most when throwing straight at it angled from the left side. I'm more curious to see what will happen now that we have synthetic lanes.

Think more astounded at the 74% split conversion you stated.

[Mike White]

Think more astounded at the 74% split conversion you stated.

From that fiasco in Temecula.

I don't think I've left a 7-9 split 10 times in my life, but my memory isn't something I try to rely on.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

From that fiasco in Temecula.

I don't think I've left a 7-9 split 10 times in my life, but my memory isn't something I try to rely on.

and you didn't even see it SMH lol

[Blacksox1]

To the original poster, last season I bowled 186 league games. Averaged 215.59, strike percentage 57%, all types of spares combined, 76%.

[billf]

Sometimes it's not speed.



One thing that helps with the 7-10 is what type of curtain is hanging in the pit. The ones that hung straight down would let the pin bounce off it better and more toward the 10 (or 7). The curved curtains that are around most places now, the pin just hits it and just goes dead and drops.

Ours hang straight down and are the only ones I've ever had an opportunity to see. I didn't know they were any different. Would this also explain why I've only seen at our center an inordinate amount of pins come out of the back? For example hit the 6, pops out to get the 4 (only time I've seen the 4-6 converted). I know back gutter height, side board age and material all play a role but the curtain was a new one.

Think more astounded at the 74% split conversion you stated.

My most common leave was the 9-10. Hardly a split but it counts, or at least My Lane Play counts it as does our scoring software. While I now find it easy to pick up it is disheartening walking up thinking "I hope it's not another 9-10". 3-10 then 5-10 were common in descending order. I was 0-1 on the greek church.

[bowl1820]

Ours hang straight down and are the only ones I've ever had an opportunity to see. I didn't know they were any different. Would this also explain why I've only seen at our center an inordinate amount of pins come out of the back?
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Probably, Think of the curtains that hang straight down as being like the side boards.

Also the curtains that slope back are angled differently depending on brand machine. You can see some different curtains if you look in the Equip. & Spec. manual.

[billf]

I'm an idiot and I apologize. I transposed the numbers 47% NOT 74%. I don't know how many times I looked at that and saw what I meant to type instead of what I actually typed.