Boatmans 2024-2025 season

[Aslan]

I like to stop in here and see all the single-pin leaves...makes me feel better after a night of a poo ton of single-pin leaves.

[boatman37]

Well glad we are done except for our end of season tournament next week. Was notified yesterday that my last day at work will be 4/30. My whole team is gone. Unemployment is only gonna cover about 25% of my current take home salary so gonna have to cut back on spending and be living off of savings until something comes along.

[Aslan]

Was notified yesterday that my last day at work will be 4/30. My whole team is gone. Unemployment is only gonna cover about 25% of my current take home salary so gonna have to cut back on spending and be living off of savings until something comes along.

1) That sucks.
2) On the bright side, you have some savings.
3) At least it wasn't the Friday before Christmas when companies usually tend to 'notify' you.
4) Its still a worker's market...unemployment is relatively low...so finding something might be easier. Unlike 2008-2009 when jobs were scarce.

I was hoping you'd stick around and solve this single-pin problem so you could tell me how ya did it. Your last night you left 12 single-pins with 9 of them being corner-pins (7s or 10s). My last night I left 10 single-pins with 7 being corner-pins. I left out 6s and 4s...even though they are technically corner-pins...just because a pocket hit usually doesn't leave those. Usually you're practically going through the nose or going through the nose to leave those. I'm more concerned with leaving pins when I'm hitting the pocket. I could even add 8-pins and 8-10s to the list....for the same reason: you hit the pocket and the ball doesn't carry through the pin deck for whatever reason.

As a righty, I'm slightly less concerned about 7-pins because leaving those on a flush hit could just be poor pin placement...which is outside my control. But leaving flat 10 after flat 10...as you know well...is just frustrating to the point of defeating. Then some numb**** goes up and throws a straight ball and the pins fall forward and he strikes....which only adds to the irritation.

And everyone from pros to casual bowlers all have different "sure-fire" tricks/techniques to fix it. Yet, probably 4/5 of those suggestions are just "wive's tales" that some pro shop guy told their buddy back in the mid 90s with no reasoning attached. And pros all have their own methods...usually based on the advice of their ball reps. Well, league bowlers don't have ball reps and a van full of balls with multiple drillings and surfaces. You can tell a fair amount from where the ball leaves the pin deck...but there are still at least a few potential "reasons" for why it could be doing what its doing. Too far left, ball is too weak, ball is too angular, ball isn't angular enough, you're too far forward, you're too far back, you need to open your angle, you need to close your angle, etc... It'd be nice to look over at the guy that just rolled a 298 and mimic him...but he's throwing 2-handed or with a 400rpm rev rate...so good luck mimicing that on the fly.

Ughhh. Frustrating. Not "job loss" frustrating...I've been there...but "bowling frustrating".

[boatman37]

Well we had a big storm come through tonight. We were supposed to have our end of year tournament tonight. Got there and about 10 minutes later the power went out. The word was it was gonna be out at least a few hours so we decided to split the tournament money evenly so no bowling tonight and done until fall.

[boatman37]

Tonight was our first night. One guy on our team bought a new ball so he threw 2 practice games last week. The rest of us haven't touched a ball since April. In warmups I kept tugging my shots bad. Started with the Xponent but no hook and being stubborn I stayed in it the whole first game. I had very little miss room but my spare shooting was pretty good all night. Game 2 switched to the Pi and it had some hook but not much more success. Started game 3 with the Pi until about the 6th or 7th frame then grabbed the Altered Reality. Started striking a little more with it. In the end we only won game 2 so went 2-5 tonight. Game 1 we were 6 pins below our average but game 2 we were 80 over and game 3 we were 13 over but still lost. The other team was way over their average.

Game 1: 211 (4 strikes, 5 spares, 1 open, 1 split)

Game 2: 205 (6 strikes, 4 spares, 1 open)

Game 3: 191 (6 strikes, 5 spares, 1 open, 1 split)

Series: 607

Average: 202.33

Running average: 202.33

Last seasons average: 202.61

First ball average: 9.21

Strikes: 47% (16/34)

Spares: 82% (14/17)

Single pin spares: 90% (9/10)

Splits: 50% (1/2)

7 pins: 100% (2/2)

7 pins season: 100% (2/2)

[J Anderson]

Not bad for having taken the summer off!

[boatman37]

That would be the first thought but historically I start the season off strong then after about week 5 I start falling off and drop about 10 pins.

[Aslan]

That would be the first thought but historically I start the season off strong then after about week 5 I start falling off and drop about 10 pins.

I hate when that happens. I've done that a couple times...bowl one of my best series in the first few weeks and then I struggle all season to beat my average. Although, you'll easily have higher series than the one you rolled.

I guess summer bowling is over-rated.

[boatman37]

Well tonight sucked but it sucked more for the other team...lol. Lanes were tight. There are 2 220 bowlers on the other team and they had 621 and 563. Only 1 bowler on our team bowled there average and he barely got it. But my spare shooting was pretty good again so happy about that. If I could start throwing some strikes I'd be doing pretty good. Threw the Pi first 1.5 games then the Xponent. Won 2/3 so went 5-2 tonight. Did the same last week somehow. Thought we went 2-5 last week but apparently we were wrong. Oh...and splits were crazy tonight.

Game 1: 202 (5 strikes, 4 spares, 2 opens-2 splits)

Game 2: 189 (5 strikes, 5 spares, 1 open-1 split)

Game 3: 202 (7 strikes, 3 spares, 1 open)

Series: 593

Average: 197.67

Running average: 200.00

Last seasons average: 202.61

First ball average: 8.77

Strikes: 48% (17/35)

Spares: 75% (12/16)

Single pin spares: 100% (4/4)

Splits: 0% (0/3)

7 pins: 100% (1/1)

7 pins season: 100% (3/3)

[Aslan]

Looks like you mainly just got hurt by splits. Still a decent night.