This year, I decided to bowl a a daytime senior league with my aging mom. Handicap is 100% of 200, and you get your full average if you're absent. I entered with a 227 book, which gives me 27 "bonus" pins a game. Nobody seems to care. I explained the built in advantage I was getting at the league meeting, and proposed 100% of 230 for my situation. I was voted down! Maybe they just didn't get it, but whatever. I tried to do the right thing.
I had a similar situation a few years back when I bowled a work league; all 12 teams came from my employer or immediate family of employees.
I tried to explain that it was to my advantage averaging 217 when handicap was based on 200. even did the math on a white board to prove it. These people thought I was getting screwed by having a zero handicap so they voted to keep the basis at 200.
and most of those people were engineers, supposedly good at math! never felt more ashamed at my profession....
