This is a Hose post.

I’ll be bowling our city association tournament this weekend but any thoughts of winning the singles title or all events title have been dashed.

A bowler (with a 190 average) shot in the 820's in singles scratch and has 891 with handicap. His all events score is around 2340.

Oh well.. Maybe second wouldn’t be so bad.

PB, I thought you were just giving up because you saw I was coming Saturday.  

I hope Team or Doubles isn't out of sight yet.  I still can't understand how these flukes happen.  When I was in Manhattan, I witnessed an 857 by a guy who barely averaged 190 and had never had a 700 series in his life.  I couldn't fault him because the pins kept falling, but it was really disheartening to watch.

Do we know it wasn't a sport-pattern 190 average bowler bowling on a THS?

In a somewhat related vein, bowling the city tournament this year I fell behind a guy from one of my leagues who averages 180 in league but shot 640's during the tournament.  The difference?  He's always rip-roaring drunk in league but stays sober for the tournament.  Is that fair?
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Kill the back row

There are provisions under ABC rules to re-rate someone’s average but I have seldom seen it done.

Re-rating normally only comes into play when a bowler has had superior performance in multiple tournaments.

Some tournaments require you to list previous tournament winnings over a monetary value in the last x months. If you have won over X amount and average over X amount over your average then they can re-rate you.

I don’t believe it is really the case here. It is just one of those things with modern bowling that seem to happen at almost every handicap tournament. A decent bowler happens to match up and goes crazy. They end up shooting astronomical numbers that scratch bowlers can only dream about shooting.

Congratulations PB.  You had struggled some in league at that house this year, so I think it must have been the inspiration you received bowling against Dad in Team.  I'll tell him to expect a check for being your whipping boy.  Ed didn't really have that much because he bowled another Team a couple weeks ago and was about 80 pins lower.  Hope to see you hold up as well.

I could easily see how someone could get lined up for a magical set and shoot lights out simply because he carried all the pocket hits.  I can also see this same person leave a bunch of single pin spares and not score so well.  I never figured out the reason some shots carried so well while others left pins standing.  Out of the 9 games I bowled, I threw 7 pretty well, but only scored on 2.  This is just where we are at in bowling now, you have to find a way to carry quickly or get left behind.  We had a joke bowling singles that the first miss you had meant you were already knocked out of 1st.