Team Bam Bam Accomplishes The Improbable Two Game Win!

Random is random, right?  Well today's random team picks had me (Team Brooks) as one captain and Doug (Team Bam Bam) as the other.  And, as random selection would have it, today saw all of the higher handicappers on one team.  In spite of that, the first game was a complete blowout in favor of Team Bam Bam.  Team Bam Bam came within 18 pins of beating Team Brooks outright (without including handicaps).  Team Bam Bam started with 259 pins to our 118 pins, a difference of 114 pins, before the first ball was rolled down the lane.  Team Bam Bam's captain, Dog, led the charge with a solid 155, 38 pins over his average, for a NET team score of  641 to 518, a 123 pin shellacking in that first game.  And even though Team Brooks managed to squeak by with narrow margin victories on games two and three, we didn't win those games by enough to overcome the thumping taken in the first.  

After that game one debacle, we all settled down back closer to our natural abilities, although Bo was the only bowler today to better his average.  That left Bo at the top of our individual results with a NET 625 for the week, followed closely by Tom with 591 NET pins, and bringing up third on the strength of that 155 effort was Doug with 590 NET pins.

This Week's Individual Results
						Total Pins
First		Last		Average		Gross		Net
Bo		Dee		127		382		625
Tom		Belt		147		441		591
Doug		Kurtis		114		341		590
Todd		Eveland		153		460		586
Rick		Brooks		160		481		559
Maurice		Snyder		87		262		529

The following table may become a regular feature.  It shows how each of us did against ourselves.  

Average vs. Today's Results
				Averages
First		Last		Overall*		Today's		Diff:
Bo		Dee		122		127		5
Tom		Belt		149		147		-2
Doug		Kurtis		116		114		-3
Todd		Eveland		157		153		-4
Rick		Brooks		171		160		-11
Maurice		Snyder		105		87		-18

*The overall average includes todays results.

This table can be an indicator of our own progress/improvement, consistency, or lack thereof!  But then again, averages are made of the highs and the lows.

And last, there was very little movement in the standings for our group.  Only Bo improved but not enough to overtake the absent Cary.

The Accidental Bowling League Group Standings
				Current
First		Last		Average		Handicap
Rick		Brooks		171		29
Todd		Eveland		157		43
Tom		Belt		149		51
Cary		Saul		125		75
Bo		Dee		122		78
Doug		Kurtis		116		84
Mike		Raynor		107		93
Maurice		Snyder		105		95
Scott		Reed		82		118

For those of you that aren't getting enough bowling, I stumbled on a MeetUp group that gets together every other Sunday evening at 5:30 over at the Kennelworth Road AMF Star Lanes.  I'm thinking about checking it out this Sunday.  I can share that information if you are interested.  Also, there are senior leagues at Sky Lanes at 1:00 on Mondays and Thursdays.  You don't have to join a team.  You can join the USBC online and then just show up and substitute (for any absent team members).  I do that occasionally just to get out of the house when the weather is bad and I don't have any projects I'm working on.  (I used to bowl with the seniors at the AMF years ago so I know some of them.)

Take care and try to stay in from the cold!

R-