A light showing this week, only five bowlers. So I bowled in absentia (in Cleveland) on Monday so the team scores would be relative. A big shout out to Adam at Sky Lanes for setting up the scoreboard with our handicaps and my away games!
On my one good game, a solid 191, I was able to grab total Gross and Net honors this week. Of course I was able to bowl at an alley that actually had oil on the lane so I had that going for me. For reference, I bowled at the Roll House in North Olmsted, the same bowling alley where I tossed my 256 earlier this year. Mike Raynor bowled all three of his games over his 120 average to ride his handicap into second position. Rounding out the top three was Todd with a NET 595, just six pins shy of the second spot. It looks like Maurice's rising average and corresponding lower handicap cost him his previous two weeks' spot in the top three dropping one place.
This week I took some time and managed to get the teams more balanced relative to the team total handicap. Although, in theory, it shouldn't matter. The handicap is intended to make the individuals equal across the board before the first ball is sent down the lanes. The final outcomes are determined by who bowls BETTER than their handicaps.
Week two of the TEAM Competition saw Team Eveland vs Team Belt (Sorry, I didn't make the effort to come up with clever team names this week)! This week we saw Team Eveland take three of the four* games with three of the 9 individual efforts over the 200 Standard Score Benchmark, and three more within 7 pins of that number. Team Belt still had a decent showing with two individual games over the 200 pin standard and three more within 6 pins of the standard. NET Total games around 195 and above indicate that everyone is bowling to their individual averages or above and is a very good indicator of improvement (progress). So great job everyone!
*Remember: the fourth game is the total of the three games for the day. And it is possible to win two of three and still lose the fourth, or total pin count!
Here are the averages and corresponding handicaps each of us will be carrying into next week. With my overall average creeping up ever so slowly, I've managed to keep ahold of the top spot for this week. In his absence (Liam didn't bowl this week), Liam managed to move up one spot into second place in our group. Except for Liam's leap frog, the rest of the group remained fairly static. And as we get more games under our belts and in our averages, point movements will become smaller still.
Hope to see everyone next week!
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