Sandbaggers........

[manke]

So your telling me a guy cant shoot 550 the first night of league? Give me a break, he could just be having a bad night lots of splits. I'm pretty sure anybody that has a book average wants to be throwing 180s.

[got_a_300]

I always try and bowl my best but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way and
you get some splits and maybe a missed single pin spare then you get accused of
sandbagging when you have a bad night.

I've never tried to intentionally sandbag on purpose as I don't believe in doing that
myself because I want to get all the pins that I can every time I throw a ball I've
had team mates that wanted me to sandbag a little but I tell them in no certain
terms NO way and I do not bowl with them after the league ends and the
new season starts I find new people to bowl with that doesn't ask me to do that.

[manke]

Why would anyone sandbag the first night of the season. I want get every pin i can, i dont know how people could sandbag.I hate losing.

[ep1977]

Why would anyone sandbag the first night of the season. I want get every pin i can, i dont know how people could sandbag.I hate losing.

They sacrifice the first 3-6 weeks of the season to try and dominate the rest of the weeks. Sandbagging is really a team effort to get maximum handicap as a team. A team in my league has 2 bowlers with averages over 214 and they both barely broke 400 in weeks 1 and 2.

[fordman1]

It has been explained in detail how to stop sandbaggers in the 1st few weeks of the season. Go to the League Organizational meeting and change the rules or quit whining.

[ep1977]

It has been explained in detail how to stop sandbaggers in the 1st few weeks of the season. Go to the League Organizational meeting and change the rules or quit whining.

Who's whining? If you don't want to read about others opinions on this subject it's very simple don't open the thread!!!!!

[JaxBowlingGuy]

It has been explained in detail how to stop sandbaggers in the 1st few weeks of the season. Go to the League Organizational meeting and change the rules or quit whining.

One person can't change it. Over half the league would

[Tony]

It has been explained in detail how to stop sandbaggers in the 1st few weeks of the season. Go to the League Organizational meeting and change the rules or quit whining.

Keep in mind a few things, people try to be reasonable about changing rules to avoid chasing off too many bowlers who can easily quit and join another league, web sites and forums like this are one of the places where people in like situations can gather and commiserate and just because "we" know how to fix something does not mean it's going to happen, there are always some variables that we don't control to contend with.

[fordman1]

You can't get rid of sandbaggers with out changing the rules that they don't like.
EP I am trying to educate bowlers not be a smart A$$.
Sitting on your hands gets nothing done.

[LOUVIT]

This is my first league in 25 years, after the first 2 weeks and I have a 139 average. Now I bowled in the summer in a practice league with most of these people and they seen me throw from 140 to 240. Today was the third week, after starting a thread with a video of me I learned I was not behind the ball at all and was pulling it etc.... today I found it easy to stay behind the ball and get it where I wanted it. I started with a 190 then a 165....so would you think I was sandbagging, a guy with no average shoots this in 3 weeks? Last game we were crushed and honestly I was tired and sweating and shot 120... I would think I was sandbagging.

this is an example oh how you can be accused of it and not at all doing it.