Someone was referring to my posting about our new league format

"Actually there was a post about a league that grew with a new format that I myself had never heard of that sounded interesting that I may bring up at the next league meeting." 

Since last season our league went to a progressive scoring system. In this system you are not directly bowling head to head with the other team on your pair , but the whole league each game. We have 32 teams in our league an How it works is after each game the team with the highest total pins for that game get 32 points and 2nd most 31 etc. down to the 1 point for the lowest handicap team game. After the 3 games are done we get points for total wood also, 32 for most pins down to 1 for lest total pins for the night.

I had never heard of or participated in a league like this before, and it is different from what I had been used to , but I like bowling in a "big" league better than when we got down to 16 teams a few years back.

Now if I could only win the strike jackpot which is up to over 1200 bucks currently....oh well

Brad

I stopped bowling this year.

$20 per week.  $12-13 of that was lineage.
35 weeks.
That's $700 per year.  I think we got around $80 back. 
So basically I paid $620 for 105 games.  That's close to $6 per game.

Add in another $10 for food.  Another $5-10 for drinks.

It's supposed to be about having fun and some competition, but I got tired of hearing this every week - "guys, we have to stay on pace.  We start at 6:15-6:20 and we HAVE to be done at 9:00.  The center needs the lanes for the $10 all you can bowl customers...it's in our contract!"

If the center is going to charge our league $12-13 for lineage and then rush us out for the high school and college kids to come in and chuck house balls down the lane, they can have them.

I used to say that I could spend my $20 per week going up there and practice bowling and get at least twice the amount of games, but they raised their open bowling rates to around $5 on the weekend, and I think almost $4 during the week.

Ceiling tiles are still dirty and stained....same with the carpet.  Paint is still dingy.  Lanes, seats, tables, scorers and everything else are still from the late 80s or early 90s.  TV still has crappy reception.  Employees are still lazy and act like you are bothering them.

Haven't bowled since the end of last season.

Every once in a while my kids ask about going bowling on the weekends.  It's cheaper to take them to the movies or Chuck E. Cheese.  It would take right around an hour to bowl 3 games and cost me at least $50-60 (more if they charge for the kid's shoes) for the bowling and another $20+ for food......for an hour!