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Title: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: splitcity on September 04, 2006, 08:28:35 AM
the league i bowl in you have to use last years average for the first 7 weeks. they say its to prevent sandbagging. i think 7 weeks is a bit excessive since it is 20% or 1/5 of our league which is 35 weeks. i can see maybe 4 weeks but 7 weeks seems too long. they almost voted to stretch it to 8 weeks, but it didnt pass. just wondering what was the standard out there.
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: monstercrank on September 04, 2006, 04:44:11 PM
they set a new one for us every season. altho i didint join my leauge till the last 1/3 of the way threw, and i only had the first half the year before, so they freakin combined the 2 and dropped the average alot! took the whole rest of the season to get it back up to a decent #.
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: Kyle on September 04, 2006, 04:46:50 PM
9 games for us.
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: ThongPrincess on September 04, 2006, 04:56:14 PM
My leagues use book for entering average only, never for handicap purposes.  Some leagues in my center do use book for the first 9 games to calcualte handicap.
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: bassace on September 04, 2006, 05:25:12 PM
9 games for both my leagues.
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: legend4life95 on September 04, 2006, 06:40:11 PM
9 games
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: charlest on September 04, 2006, 06:58:15 PM
Our leagues in NJ vary from 1 week (3 games) to 3 weeks (9 games). I think 3 - 4 weeks (9 - 12 games) is rational. Much more than that makes little sense. There's only so much you can do to curtail sandbagging.

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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: azguy on September 04, 2006, 06:59:53 PM
9 games for us.
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: BOWL119 on September 04, 2006, 07:21:18 PM
We establish an average the first week that we bowl. Seems to be the only fair way to do it. The only time last years average is used is to figure out Most Improved Bowler. If a person is new to the league, then they would use their average from the other league or their average after 4 weeks. if it goes up higher then anyone else, the would win MIB for that year.
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: splitcity on September 04, 2006, 07:32:25 PM
well were gettin jipped! 21 games is too long.
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: mrbowlingnut on September 04, 2006, 11:03:56 PM
One league 20 games one league none go figure ???
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: jhutch769 on September 04, 2006, 11:15:22 PM
We go 6 games
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: toomanytenpins on September 05, 2006, 07:55:06 PM
one league i bowl in you use your avg. all year. you can never go under it but you can go over. last year i came in at 191 ,but i avgd. way under that ,my avg. stayed at 191 no matter how bad i bowled. this year it is 173 to start. Another league we start fresh every year.
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: MSC2471 on September 05, 2006, 10:45:04 PM
9 games (3 weeks) in my Monday night league, and they also have a rule that if you haven't established a league average from the previous season in that house that you need to establish an average each of the first 3 weeks, take the handicap from that night.... and then do the same thing the next week until you have 9 games in the league.

In my Wednesday night league I'm bowling in I've heard that they re-rate you every 18 games, so it should be interesting to see how the handicap works in this league...

Matt
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: Charles on September 06, 2006, 06:49:15 AM
3 weeks = 9 games
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: golfnutFL on September 06, 2006, 08:47:04 AM
9 games in one, 3 games in the other
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: BrianCRX90 on September 06, 2006, 07:32:30 PM
I think there should be a USBC rule preventing any league to use "league averages". One of the main points of bowling a long winter league is to establish a book average and there are leagues that like to use thier own average. Not a fan of that.
Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: Hogsharley on September 06, 2006, 07:49:36 PM
Our league rules say 9 games (3 weeks).
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Title: Re: how long do you use last years average in your leagues??
Post by: tjj300 on September 06, 2006, 07:49:51 PM
9 games here, too.



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