Completely depends on the league. For a social league that only has a few decent bowlers, someone 220+ can easily run up a big margin. For a competitive league that has more money involved, I'd expect it to be closer.
League high average margin of 17 over the second place average.
I'm pretty sure that winning high season average by 17 pins over the nearest competitor is the most of any league I ever bowled in.
There are quite a few good bowlers in the league and typically the high average in in the 230's ( there are 7 or 8 players over 230)
Does 17 seem like a much wider spread that is typical in most leagues ?
Completely depends on the league. For a social league that only has a few decent bowlers, someone 220+ can easily run up a big margin. For a competitive league that has more money involved, I'd expect it to be closer.
It's a pretty competitive league with some pretty good bowlers, probably had 20 to 30 300 games and quite a few 800 series this season, last night had 1 300, 2 299's and 2 800's. There are 7 or 8 guys with 230 + avg, and another 10 - 15 over 220.Originally Posted by mc_runner
This fellow ran away with the league avg with over 250 and over 80 games bowled.
He sounds like a really good bowler but it also sounds like a really easy house. Where is this great place at. I would like to see the league sheet.
Exactly.
I've bowled in "easy" houses before...where there might be 3 perfect games a season...maybe 1 800 series. But most houses I've bowled at...I haven't seen any 800s and usually only 1-3 perfect games per season...if any.
And I've been fairly consistent, bowling in the 'better' house leagues at each house I bowl in...not some non-sanctioned "fun league"...so I usually bowl against the better bowlers in the area. Are there more "competitive" leagues? A few scratch leagues and high $$$ leagues scattered about...and I could see guys in those leagues having quite a few 215-220 average bowlers. But even in Southern California, those leagues are few and far between.
In typical "competitive house" leagues...the high average usually ends up being somewhere in the 210-220 range...with only maybe 5-10 bowlers over 200.
Not sure about Vegas...that's a different environment with lots of regional PBA players...so there's more 'talent'...but the lanes are in no way "easy"...so I doubt you'd have very many super-high averages, perfect games, nor 800 series.
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Now that's is been condemned as a easy house with a bunch of high average no talent hacks why would I bother to post any information to dispute that, after all you guys apparently know everything already. IE if someone is better than you they are cheating, lying or shooting on a house shot you would average 300 on easy/ ********
Actually one of my teammates was just in Vegas for the USBC , he averaged 20 pins higher in Vegas ..... He's in the top 10 in the standings. Guess he's just lucky
Last edited by Tony; 04-07-2017 at 09:13 AM.
250 is good no matter what
Sounds like a combo of good bowlers and a predictable, well-holding shot. Not that it's easy by any means, but when its predictable from night to night on how the lanes break down, or if they even break down, I could see averages up there like that. For instance, one house in Wyoming is notorious for having guys over 230+. Then, when us out of town guys go up to bowl a tourney, we see why. It's a predictable wall on the 7 board and flooded in the middle. It doesn't really break down, the oil tends to "push" a bit and you end up moving right. I wouldn't say it's an "easy" shot by any means, but, predictability in the break down from week to week sure does make a difference in average
This doesn't sound like a unrealistic post?
That wasn't the subject of the post now was it ? Wasn't the post talking about the unbelievable margin one extraordinary bowler managed to maintain over the rest of the league.
You decided to throw in some jabs and badmouth the league and all of the bowlers instead of commenting on the original subject.
Last edited by bowl1820; 04-07-2017 at 03:52 PM. Reason: removed uncalled for comment
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