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Bowling: Individual or Team Sport?Category: Bowling There are two ways to look at bowling. The first is as an individual game. Every week, we try to improve on our own personal average. As an indication of the importance of the individual game, the league gives eight awards to individual high single and high triple, flat and handicapped, men and women. My own historical average has been about 172-174. But this season, I started out around 140. It's been my goal this season to bring my average back up to where I think it should be. Each week, I've tried to raise my standings by at least one position, and for the last few weeks, I've been succesful at that goal. My average for the past four weeks of bowling has been a terrific 203, raising my season average now to 162. The next step up the standings will be harder - the next higher bowler is at 168! The other way to look at bowling is as a team sport. For each game, a handicap is added to players' scores, which are then summed to give a team score. Points are then awarded to the winning teams of each match: Two points per game, one point for a tie, and one point for total pins over the three games, up to a maximum of seven points per evening. Last week was the last evening of series one (out of three for the whole season), and my team came in first. We did so in an interesting manner, with a total of 42 points. Each week of the series, we either earned seven points or nothing! Since scores are handicapped, it's often hard to pull ahead of the pack. Most bowlers consistently bowl near their average, and so most teams will have game scores hovering around 1000. The teams that do well are the ones with improving players. That is, players who can consistently bowl over their average. Having a crummy start to my season has been a benefit for my team. I certainly didn't want to start out with a low average. But now that I'm bowling better, better even than my historical average, my high handicap has helped my team. Hans path: /Bowling | permanent link to this entry  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
