My Week 23 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I thought I was OK through two, mostly because of the way I finished the second game, but then the wheels just fell off of the proverbial wagon.

Result: 157-189-144=490
Average (69 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 181
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 566

Team won all four, with the team winning the third game because everyone else picked me up, led by Berta with a 190 game.

Last week was a good one for brackets, where, after a dollar refund, I beat Carol Andersen and Steve Corradina in two of the brackets and came in second to Shawn and Ed Godino Jr. in the other two. The two brackets I won accounted for the black number.

“Tripped 4s” took four from “Good Luck Bad Luck”, but did it the weird way, winning the first game, tying the second, and losing the third, but not by enough to lose total. We are now 17 points behind “6-Pack Abs”, who lead by 14 over “The Ocho” and Team 1 after the first round robin cycle.

After winning three points from “The Incredibowls”, “Snakes On A Lane” stand tied for 14th with “Nuckin Futs” and “WTF Over”, eight points behind “Bowling Stones”; their lead is by point over “We Split 4 No 1” (our opponents in the coming week), Team 16, and “Sweet Rolls”.

My Week 22 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

At the end of my night, I told Karen, my partner in the mixed doubles last weekend, about this and asked her where this was when I was bowling with her. I was mostly happy with how I bowled, and, while there’s always a clunker in the three with me, it seems, I did hit my +1 on the button. There was only one missed single pin (a 7), and I made both of my splits as well as a couple of washouts. I really just need to learn to relax when I bowl, because I do well when I’m relaxed.

Result: 226-192-163=581
Average (66 games): 176
Average for last 9 games: 182
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 597

It was a quick night, with two bowlers absent on both teams, and a vacancy on the other team, besides. Team took three of four, with Brian over average for all three games.

I should say I usually dread February, because not much good happens to me in that month, but my average has been trending up in the month this year rather than down, so I hope to carry this through the rest of the winter season.

“Tripped 4s” lost five of seven points to Team 1 despite setting a new league record for a five-man team series with 3,378. We now trail “6-Pack Abs” by 16 points and are in 5th place; the leaders have an 11 point lead on Team 1.

EDIT: Forgot to mention also that “BOSStull” of “Good Luck Bad Luck” submitted an 811 series this week, and “sk8shorty01” of Team 3 had a 290 game, in addition. The league at-large averaged close to 208 for the week.

After winning three of four from “Split Happens”, “Snakes On A Lane” are now tied for 17th place, nine points behind “Bowling Stones”, who are two points ahead of a three-way tie for second between “We Split 4 No 1”, Team 16, and “Sweet Rolls”. “The Incredibowls” will be my team’s opponents in the coming week.

Before bowling started tonight, the league voted to make up the missed week last week later in the season, but another weather cancellation would result in that week not being made up.

My Week 21 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I recognized early on that I was rushing through my bowling and trying to force it, but it took the rest of the first game for me to completely calm down. Once I did, however, I generally made better shots, and the scoring followed, particularly in the third game.

Result: 160-186-220=566
Average (63 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 175
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 581

It was a quick night, because Berta and Brian pre-bowled last week, not knowing whether we’d cancel for snow. Team took three of four after losing the first game by 51 pins.

I got a $1 refund from my brackets, but lost all four I was in. I recently also decided to calculate my profit/loss in Excel, reconstructing my bracket results from my league night posts. I will share the worksheet at the end of the season.

“Tripped 4s” lost all seven to the leaders, “6-Pack Abs”, and, combined with all seven lost by “Good Luck Bad Luck”, “6-Pack Abs” now have a ten point lead on the latter team, and 13 over us.

My make-up bowling for Week 5, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I suppose I could have just given up on the week and taken 10 off my average, but I’m not one to “mail it in.” There were just not enough strikes for me out there, and the spares I did miss were costly, as well. Still, it was a tall order, because my team needed me to shoot 214, 222, and 194 in each game to get to our team average, and that might have been asking too much today.

I figured I should note here that, with a snowstorm having hit this morning, my league canceled for tonight. We probably won’t make up the night, but that leaves me without my regular virtual league score, so I plan on going in this weekend to get my virtual league bowling in for the week (it’s allowed under our rules).

“Tripped 4s” won only the third game from “The Ocho”, leaving us tied for third with them, six points behind “6-Pack Abs”, who increased their lead to three points over “Good Luck Bad Luck”.

A member of Team 1, “Rocket Jr”, submitted a 297 game last week. It should be noted that he’s a clean series machine, because I almost expect him to tell me he had 30-clean when he submits every week (and it was last week). And he’s still only a youth bowler. 😀

Failing to win points from “Bowling Stones” meant that “Snakes On A Lane” slipped into a tie for last place with “WTF Over” (Note: There has been an 18th team that joined the league to begin the second half.) and the sweep enabled “Bowling Stones” to take a one point lead over Team 16. My team bowls against “Split Happens” this week.

My Week 20 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

The third game had a kind of “too little, too late” feel to it, but some of that was my own doing w/ the single pin misses.

Result: 169-137-193=499
Average (60 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 179
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 556

Team lost three rather close games; I really needed the first strike in the 10th third game, but didn’t get it.

“Snakes On A Lane”, after failing to win points against “3 Plus 2”, are tied with six other teams at the bottom, while the same number are tied for the lead with seven points each; Team 16 has the pinfall advantage. My team bowls against “Bowling Stones” tomorrow night.

“Tripped 4s” took five of seven from “Fab 5”, but “6-Pack Abs” won all seven last week to leapfrog into the lead, with my team and “Good Luck Bad Luck” tied for second a point behind.

My Week 19 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Just not enough good shots tonight. The splits in the second game were pretty much my undoing, because if two of them were makeable spares, I probably had a chance to go over average again.

Result: 182-156-173=511
Average (57 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 180
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 530

Team lost all four, but an extra spare by us in the first and/or third games might have been the difference for the points, because each of those games was lost by ten or fewer pins.

Shawn refunded me $1 again, so there were only four brackets, one of which I won by beating Jo-Ann (who knocked me out of two of them in the second game) for a $1 profit.

Eight teams won only one point in the first week of the second half, but “Snakes on a Lane” stood on top of all of those by having the best pinfall, so, for the moment, we sit in 10th place. “Bowling Stones” was the only team that won all of their points to start the second half, so their lead is a point over eight teams.

“3 Plus 2” are tomorrow night’s opponents.

“Tripped 4s” took the lion’s share (five of seven) from “Live2Bowl”, and now stand in a tie for the lead with “Good Luck Bad Luck” (more on them later), a point ahead of both “Live2Bowl” and “6-Pack Abs”.

“Good Luck Bad Luck” had a league-history top three game (1,201, good for third all-time) and series (3,344, good for second all-time), but, surprisingly, the game was not helped by an honor score, even though “BOSStull” of that team shot a 299; the honor game for “BOSStull” came in the first game (the big team game was the third).

My Week 18 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I want more nights like tonight. I made a parallel 1-1 move inside to start the second game after coming in light late in the first game, and it not only got me more in the pocket, but also improved my carry. I didn’t have to make another move the rest of the night.

Result: 178-214-213=605
Average (54 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 181
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 573

We did make a team name change for the second half (to “Snakes On A Lane”). My teammates thought it might improve our luck, but we still only took one point tonight (second game), with Pat putting up a 410 (80 pins over average).

Last week, I made it through three brackets, but lost to Shawn in the third game in all three; it was still a $1 profit.