The first rule of playing sport patterns is to use a plastic spare ball and go straight at any pin or pin combination that you leave standing. It might not actually be the first rule, but then again I haven't seen a written set of rules for how to play sport patterns in general.
The first week of the summer sport league I matched up against a guy trying sport patterns for the first time. After seeing him miss a few spares, I suggested that he bring his plastic ball the next week. The next week I asked him if he brought it and he said that he had planned to and then forgot. Third week I wasn't bowling but I swung by after my meeting was over just to say hi to my friends in the league. I saw the new guy and asked if he had remembered the plastic ball. His reply was he thinks it's lost somewhere in his basement. Needless to say after 4 weeks his average is a whopping 115.
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