with the season half way over there will be some discussion starting about who will win the 2006-2007 pba player of the year award. while there are several worthy competitors norm duke is the only player with 2 titles. who will win it and why ?

You can't measure the POY soley on titles. Yes that is a big part of it but if let's say Tommy Jones won 4 straight and hardly showed up for match play the rest of the year it would be hard to argue he would be a top candidate. Norm Duke is only mildy in front now due to the two titles, but he has been very consistant all year. I think Tommy Jones, Wes Mallot and Doug Kent are still up there. Weber and Williams also are somewhat up there as well.

This year until Duke won today has been strange because there has been no front runner this year. I think because of the ridiculously high scoring this year is the reason of this. If the scoring was a little more under control, there would be a definite front runner with mabey one or two guys behind, not 8 players like now.

I predicted that Tommy Jones would repeat as POY and still stand by that. He's been pretty consistant but I thought he would have made 1 or 2 more shows and have at least 2 titles by now. Next half will have 3 majors and getting an appearance at a major is nearly as good as winning a regular tour stop. Winning a major is like counting as 2 regular stops. Again though, the consistancy matters. I thought Norm Duke was very close to winning the POY last year even though he only won 1 title it was the number of shows he made and the consistancy making match play. That is why Jones won last year and of course the 4 titles w/ the major win.

delutz could make a push.
with the exception of the 22nd place in his first event, hes placed 9th or better in the other 5 events hes bowled.  
The guy is on fire.  Just a few more weeks of this good bowling and he could definitely be a contender.

Thing about PoY is that there are 3 majors all clumped together at the end.  Its really about whos hot during the homestretch.  Thats usually when Walter wakes up too.  however I also wouldn't be surprised if they opened up the leftside a bit as no lefties have won yet...parker could maybe contend!  hes already made a couple shows!
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Brandon Riley

From what I see out there. I would vote for Doug Kent at this point.
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Too early to say, but if it were right now I would say DUKE.
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