full ball return- where does spare ball go?

[1VegasBowler]

some PBA events are pin total 1555 / 8 games = 194

And that is not even close to being in the cash.

[Timmyb]

and i also have sanctioned games of 197, 199, 200, 212, 193,

My high sanctioned game for this year is 264. And waaaaaaay more games higher than your 212.

[1VegasBowler]

I didn't even include a pair of 268's or a 265. lol

[Mike White]

And you're still not getting a PBA card anytime soon.

Not even a PBA Christmas Card, when he pays to join the PBA fan club?

[JaxBowlingGuy]

some PBA events are pin total 1555 / 8 games = 194

What PBA tournament has that for a cash spot? Which one were you looking at?

[chrono00]

and i also have sanctioned games of 197, 199, 200, 212, 193,

I've had a 219 and 224 sanctioned in the past month, and a high sanction game for me of 252? ( 250 something I think that's it). Guess I'm good to not only cash but win a few pba events with those numbers

From what I've seen on ur sanctioned averages I average a few more than You recently. So I'm not that good really...but I guess I'm a pba hall of famer

And averaging 194 over 8 games in a pba event? Those are probably on the bottom half of the competitors for the most part.

But sport pattern or a THS if ur averaging in the 150s chances r ur average won't change as u chuck it down the lane,

[1VegasBowler]

Not even a PBA Christmas Card, when he pays to join the PBA fan club?

Maybe the Mickey Mouse Club. But I think that's a stretch as well.

[Tony]

what is proper etiquette when spare ball returns after your spare so the ball return does not overflow and your ball could crack like 4 of mine did from a full return? do you wait while your spare ball retyusn and switch for a 2nd time?

Why did you have 4 balls on the ball return ....

They might not crack if you don't heave them 20' down the lane.

There are several ways to handle keeping the rack clear of extra balls, the easiest would be when you throw the spare as you exit the lane take your strike ball off the top rack and put it on the bottom, freeing space for your spare ball.

On the other hand if your strike ball and spare ball are both plastic balls, the real question is ....why ?

It would be fun to see what happens with your ball at one place I've practiced, the ball returns shoot the balls so fast that they punt balls off the rack, 10lb balls should really fly off that high powered ball return / ball launcher !

[Aslan]

Where are you seeing 185 as the cash in PBA Sport events?

Maybe what you're seeing is a cash line at +185

If there is 14 games, that would be a 213 avg to cash. If only 7 games, thats a 226 average

Yup...I used to watch nearly every PWBA and PBA50 event online (before boycotting the PBA over the Motiv incident)...and I can't remember even a PWBA or PBA50 tournament where someone cashed with a 185 average...and thats on a sport pattern. Last two times I bowled on sport patterns (as MWhite recalls)...I averaged 149 each time. At that time, on THSs I was averaging about 162-172.

To make matter worse...when I bowled the BVL at Arlington (MWhite was there for this) for Citrus Belt USBC...the only Citrus Belt average I had was the adjusted sport shot average...which pushed me into the "A Division" (I bowl BVL in OCUSBC each year and have always been in the B Division until this (2016) BVL. Had I bowled in the B Division, I'd have won the Citrus Belt and represented them at the State BVL tournament. Instead, I finished 2nd in the A Division...made plans to go to sweeps that weekend...then got a call from Citrus Belt USBC saying the A Division winner couldn't go and asked if I wanted to go in his place. I declined because;

1) I already changed my plans to go to sweeps.
2) I had virtually a 0-2% chance of winning the A Division at the State level.
3) It was in some God awful area of central California...which for anyone outside of California...is the central part...and it's just a hot, dusty poo hole of avocado farms and hillbillies in trailer parks. Last time I went through there on a motorcycling trip it was 108 degrees and I had to keep pouring bottled water all over myself to keep from getting heat exhaustion. I could actually see 'steam' coming off my forearms when the water would hit them.

So...yeah...+185 is not (averaging 185). A 185 average over 10 games would be a: - 150. In the PBA50 (not even PBA national level) event held locally, only 3 super senior bowlers actually averaged less than 185....out of 88 participants. And I think, only one of them was an actual PBA member.