My Week 6 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I really bowled better than my score tonight; I just couldn’t avoid 9 third game, and missed more than my share of the resulting single pins. My assessment of the night was confirmed by my opponents, who all said I deserved better.

Result: 189-168-137=494
Average (18 games): 176
Average for last 9 games: 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 540

First game was close, but that was all that could be said for my team tonight, as we lost all four.

In brackets last week, I made it through three of them, losing two to Shawn and one to Liz, but the $2 for coming in second in each meant I turned a dollar profit on the week.

After winning three of the four points from “We Split 4 No 1”, “Crazy Eights” are now tied with that team and “3 Plus 2” for 7th place, five points behind a tie for the lead between “Split Happens” and Team 16, with “The Doables” a point behind them. “Spare Me” will be my team’s opposition tomorrow night.

“X-Factors” could only win two points from “Splits For Brains” and now stand in a tie for third with “Off Constantly” four points behind “All Balls On Deck”, who are three points ahead of “5 Fingers of Destruction”.

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

It was another night of grinding out spares…I just wasn’t as successful at it third game as I have been.

Result: 181-187-157=525
Average (15 games): 178
Average for last 9 games: 192
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 539

Making spares was enough for my team to get the first two games and total. I was also the high man on the night on the pair.

“X-Factors” won five of seven points from “Turkey Hunters” and now stand in a tie for third with “Off Constantly”, just a point in back of a tie between “5 Fingers of Destruction” and “All Balls On Deck”. “Fin09”, a member of “Off Constantly”, submitted a 300 game last week.

After taking a lone point from “The Incredibowls”, “Crazy Eights” stand in 10th place, five points in back of a tie between “Split Happens” and Team 16. The leaders are a point in front of “The Dynasty Is Back” and “The Doables”. My team faces “We Split 4 No 1” in the coming week.

My Week 4 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

This was an over-average night that felt more like I was managing a bad night. I had a better night on my multi-pin spares tonight, and that was what really saved me.

Result: 180-176-187=543
Average (12 games): 179
Average for last 9 games: 183
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 542

Much of our opponents’ (and it turned out to be “The Incredibowls”, after all) night was Ken Snow putting up a 630, with my team only winning the second game.

The title of this post does not mean I pre-bowled for tonight; I just wanted to note that BowlerExpress has my team up against “The Incredibowls” rather than “The Doables”, so there might be more confusion in the lane assignments in store for tonight.

After winning all four from “SR Spares”, “Crazy Eights” stand in a tie for 6th (out of 17 teams now) with “WTF Over” and “Sweet Rolls”, five points behind “The Doables”, who sit three in front of a tie between “The Dynasty Is Back” (yes, that team), “Split Happens”, and Team #16. My team bowls against the aforementioned “The Doables” tomorrow night.

Individually, my 259 and 665 would have been in second in even the men’s “A” division (naturally, it was high in the “B” division), and Brian won everything except for scratch series for the week in the men’s “C” division.

“X-Factors” won all seven points from “Professional Amateurs” and now stand in 4th place, four points behind “All Balls On Deck”, who lead “Off Constantly” by a point and “5 Fingers of Destruction” by three points.

My Week 3 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I missed an opportunity tonight, as I might have had my 700 if I made my ball change sooner, as it got me back to the pocket in the third game. I still made enough of my spares to not let my second game get too out of hand (and no missed single pins all night…how ’bout that!). 😀

Result: 259-162-244=665
Average (9 games): 179
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 545

I can’t remember if Brian had a deuce game yet, but he had one tonight in the third game with a 202. Team won all four.

After winning a point from “Anger Management”, “Crazy Eights” stand in a tie for 13th place (out of 16 teams) with “We Split 4 No 1”, six points behind the leaders, “The Doables”, who are two points ahead of “WTF Over”, 2.5 ahead of “Anger Management”, and three ahead of “Sweet Rolls”. A team named “Sr Spares” (on the BowlerExpress sheet) are my team’s opponents tonight.

“X-Factors” failed to win a point from “Off Constantly”, and that team is now a point ahead of “Turkey Hunters” for the lead, with “All Balls On Deck” three behind. “X-Factors” sit in sixth place, seven points back. It should be noted that a member of “Off Constantly”, “svengali”, bowled his first 700 in the league he submits; I bring this up because “svengali” bowls out of Town Line in Malden, so we have a chance of meeting up down the line in real life.

My Week 2 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

It was another struggle tonight, particularly when my strong balls proved too “jumpy,” and when that happened, I balled down to my Hy-Road. My spare game was on full display third game, missing only one (a split, one of six on the night) with only one strike at the end.

Result: 125-147-174=446
Average (6 games): 158
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 481

Spares really do win games: The third game point, the game where I was picking up my spares, was the one we won.

“Crazy Eights” ended up winning just one point from “3 Plus 2”. “The Doables” and Team #16 were the teams that won all four points last week. Tomorrow night’s opponents for my team are “Anger Management”.

Individually, Brian had a 186 (which I forgot to mention in last week’s recap post), which led his average class.

“X-Factors” won five of the seven points against Team 4 in the first week of the fall virtual league. No team swept their points this week, but my team was joined by “Professional Amateurs” and “Off Constantly” in winning five; my team sorted to first place on scratch pinfall.

The team took the “Crazy Eights” name; I suggested “Turkey Hunters” as an alternative, but no one really liked it.

My Week 1 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

First game continues to be a nemesis, and if I could ever really figure that game out, I could be deadly. A promising sign, though, is that I was 8 of 10 on single pins, making all of my 10 pins.

Result: 143-180-181=504
Average (3 games): 168
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 510

It’s tough to judge points on the first night, but I was hopeful of a split; it did look like team won third game, anyway.

As I’m going with just posting my Excel log and need to set the sheet up, there is no administrivia for the winter links transition yet.

While I was at Westgate Lanes today, Tim Major was kind enough to provide me with a copy of the program sheet for the oil pattern that will be used for the first third of the Coke Classic league this season, which was designed by Kegel’s representative for the New England region. I scanned the sheet into a PDF and have made it available here (I did tell Junior at the Coke league’s meeting a couple of weeks ago that I was able to do this.).

As for my real league, I’m returning to the Brunswick Mixed league with the same team. We might be getting the same team number we’ve had (8), so I’ve proposed the “Crazy Eights” name this year. We’ll see if it’s the name we go with next week. Berta, Brian, and I bowled the no-tap, and I had a 647, which might be good for something with my handicap.

My virtual league team has returning teammates “Charlie98” and “jbungard”, with “BOSStull” and “Domokun” (the latter who is also a friend on Facebook) as first-time teammates of mine. Hoping to buck my summer league trend, the team went with “X-Factors” as our name. With eight five-man teams and a 16 week season, my real and virtual leagues will start in lockstep.

My Week 13 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I seem to have trouble in the first game, and tonight was no exception with my 121, but sometimes the nights you save something in are better than the nights you actually do well all night, and I had nice games in the other two to save an over-average night. My last game was a “Frank Vogel” clean game (meaning I left nothing on the deck in any frame, even filling the 10th).

Result: 121-203-238=562
Final average (39 games): 180
Average for last 9 games: 186

My team paid for my bad first game, as we needed 6 points out of the match to guarantee getting out of last place, and my team split 4-4. The 4-4 split would have been enough if the match ahead of us was a sweep by one of the teams, but that didn’t happen, either. “Rose and Thorns” won their match and claimed the league championship, so congrats to Lou Larry, Eileen Ruhl, Rob Dickens, and Jim Blyth (the first three of whom have been teammates of mine at some point). 😀

I checked my overall stats, and my rate of making single pin spares was somewhere around 70% this summer, which is an improvement over last winter. I’m feeling better about where my game is overall, so I’m hopeful for the coming fall/winter season.

After winning only two points from “New Beginnings”, “X Factors” will bowl against “Wild Samoans”, who are tied with Team 11 and “Fancy Sauce” three points ahead of us, Wednesday night in the position round. “Rose and Thorns” are two points clear in first, and will bowl against “4 Horsemen”, who are tied with “Paul’s Carpet”, and “IWorkout” is two points further back; the latter team can tie for first with a sweep and either the top match is split 4-4 or “4 Horsemen” win six points.