Rikki
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please read below im very keen for some help with this one.
This is the situation, I turned up to league on Thursday night and found the team we where playing was going to use a player that had only ever bowled 3 games for the team around 6-7 months ago and had an average of 162. When this player bowled his 3 games to get his average he had only just started to bowl and the mid 160’s was about his average then. I bowl with this man in another league on a Tuesday night in the same centre and his average in that League is 188. He has improved greatly and even bowled a 300. As a team mate and someone who has helped him with his bowling I am very glad to see him doing so well.
This gentleman was used as a fourth bowler in a 3 man league. I understand that our constitution says that any team can have a fourth bowler and there average is based off 3 games not the 9 games that everyone else does. I can live with that but I want to change the rule as I think that by doing this the team we played had an unfair advantage as this bowler had clearly improved dramatically and by using an average of 162 (bowled 6-7 months earlier) his handicap would almost ensure winning points in both the individual and team side of things.
The gentleman bowled a 665 series on Thursday night off the three games, well done to him but we had no chance of getting the individual points ( Head to Head) and very hard to get the over all points that are allocated each night.
If his average was more indicative of his capability (around the 190’s) I believe we may have obtained about 12 points out of 16 instead of the 6 that we did win.
I know the team we were playing loved the advantage they had last night. We are on top of the ladder and they are in fourth so with 7 weeks left to bowl they certainly picked up some very precious points and left me thinking about their intensions of using this player at such a critical stage of the league.
Nothing can be changed about last night and I hope that we win the league but I would like to put something to the league that will stop this sort of thing happening in the years to come. Do you have any advice on what other leagues may have done in this type of situation?
I have bowled for nearly 20 years and I understand the politics of bowling can be pretty silly at times, I know that what ever I say to the League I am pressed with an uphill battle so I need to make it quick easy and to the point.
I understand why the average is worked of the 3 games and not 9 games, the gentleman that played last night may not bowl again this year for that team but if he does his average will be 191 based off 6 games which is much more realistic.
What would you do???
This is the situation, I turned up to league on Thursday night and found the team we where playing was going to use a player that had only ever bowled 3 games for the team around 6-7 months ago and had an average of 162. When this player bowled his 3 games to get his average he had only just started to bowl and the mid 160’s was about his average then. I bowl with this man in another league on a Tuesday night in the same centre and his average in that League is 188. He has improved greatly and even bowled a 300. As a team mate and someone who has helped him with his bowling I am very glad to see him doing so well.
This gentleman was used as a fourth bowler in a 3 man league. I understand that our constitution says that any team can have a fourth bowler and there average is based off 3 games not the 9 games that everyone else does. I can live with that but I want to change the rule as I think that by doing this the team we played had an unfair advantage as this bowler had clearly improved dramatically and by using an average of 162 (bowled 6-7 months earlier) his handicap would almost ensure winning points in both the individual and team side of things.
The gentleman bowled a 665 series on Thursday night off the three games, well done to him but we had no chance of getting the individual points ( Head to Head) and very hard to get the over all points that are allocated each night.
If his average was more indicative of his capability (around the 190’s) I believe we may have obtained about 12 points out of 16 instead of the 6 that we did win.
I know the team we were playing loved the advantage they had last night. We are on top of the ladder and they are in fourth so with 7 weeks left to bowl they certainly picked up some very precious points and left me thinking about their intensions of using this player at such a critical stage of the league.
Nothing can be changed about last night and I hope that we win the league but I would like to put something to the league that will stop this sort of thing happening in the years to come. Do you have any advice on what other leagues may have done in this type of situation?
I have bowled for nearly 20 years and I understand the politics of bowling can be pretty silly at times, I know that what ever I say to the League I am pressed with an uphill battle so I need to make it quick easy and to the point.
I understand why the average is worked of the 3 games and not 9 games, the gentleman that played last night may not bowl again this year for that team but if he does his average will be 191 based off 6 games which is much more realistic.
What would you do???
