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February 19, 2014

The Basics!

1. The tournament will begin in February and last for 8 weeks.

2. Teams will consist of four (4) bowlers. It is important that all bowlers are able to play each week to give the team the best possible chance and make it fun for all.

3. The highest score a single bowler can get in a game is 300.

4. The top 3 scores in a team, at the end of a game, will be used to determine the team score for that game. Thus, the most a team can get in a game is 900. This means if one player is sick for one week it will not affect the teams overall score for the week.

7. Each team will play 2 games per week (this will likely be one after the other). The research assistant will add the top 3 scores per game and then add these together. Team scores each week will be out of 1800 (the 2 games added together).

8. On the website we will display: 

  • (1) The top 10 scoring teams of the week
  • (2) The top 10 bowlers of the week
  • (3) The tournament rankings

9. The website address is: https://wiibowl.wordpress.com/

10. The most important thing is to have FUN!!!

February 19, 2014

Let’s Get Started!

How to keep Score in Bowling

Scoring is the most confusing thing to beginner bowlers.  Even with electronic scoring, bowlers often wonder how the scores are generated.  The highest score a bowler can receive is 300. This is a perfect score with strikes in all frames. You have two bowling attempts in each frame to knock down the pins.

Basic Score

1

Listed above is a basic score card used by bowlers.  You will notice that there are ten frames and a final score.  Also you will notice that the frames has two smaller boxes within.  These boxes are used to notate the bowlers score for each bowl. Remember, a bowler gets to throw twice during one frame. Above you will see that Mr. Bowling in frame 1 scored 8 pins.  The score was gathered by adding the 5 and the 3 in the smaller boxes within the frame.  On Mr. Bowlings first bowl, he knocked down 5 pins.  On his second bowl, he knocked down 3 pins.  The math 5 + 3 = 8.

Scoring a Spare

2

A spare is when all of the bowling pins are knocked down in the two allowed throws in one frame.  A spare is indicated by a / as you can see in frame 2.  To score a spare, you must wait until the bowler bowls his or her first throw of the next frame.  The number of pins knocked down in the first throw after the spare is added to 10 (which is the score of the spare). In the example above an 8 was scored in frame 1.  Then in frame 2 a spare was scored following a 6 in frame 3.  So how did the player get 28 points?  First thing you do is take the score of 8.  You then add 10 points for the spare.  You then would add the first score listed in frame 3.  In this example Mr. Bowling knocked down 4 pins in frame 3 giving him 4 points.  The math 8 + 10 + 4 = 22

Scoring a Strike

3

A strike is when all of the bowling pins are knocked down in the first throw.  A strike X as you can see in frame 2.  To score a strike, you must wait until the bowler bowls the next frame.  The number of pins knocked down in the frame after the strike is added to 10 (which is the score of the strike). In the example above an 8 was scored in frame 1.  Then in frame 2 a strike was scored following a 6 in frame 3.  So how did the player get 30 points? First thing you do is take the score of 8.  You then add 10 points for the strike.  You then would add the score from frame 3.  In this example Mr. Bowling knocked down a total of 6 pins in frame 3 giving him 6 points.  The math 8 + 10 + 6 = 24.

 

Information provided by http://www.rulesofbowling.com/How-to-Score-the-game-Bowling-using-a-Score-Card.php