PBA Women’s Series Showdown to use novel scoring format

The PBA announced today that the upcoming Women’s Series Showdown will use a novel scoring format devised by PBA Hall of Famer Johnny Petraglia that ignores pinfall and instead counts the number of balls needed to clear the pin deck in each frame. The Petraglia System is similar to golf scoring: a strike counts as a score of 1, a typical spare 2, and something like a 7-10 split normally resulting in a score of 3, with misses escalating the total. As in golf, low score wins, and a perfect Petraglia System game is a score of 10 (a strike in every frame). It will be interesting to see how well-received this format becomes.