Scoring Explained

Here’s the promised explanation of scoring:


Each night we play 3 games and there are 7 possible points in a night. Each person (once you establish an average) gets their individual handicap added to their score (see first post or link to the right for explanation on handicap). The individual scores are added together to have a team score, which is up against one other team’s score.

So, for example, a sample scoresheet might look like this:

So the pins we actually bowled (called “scratch score”) combined with our handicap is our total pins for that game. If our total pins beats their total pins for that game, we get 2 points. That’s 6 points and the other point is for total pins over all 3 games. So, in the example above, we won 2 games (4 points) plus total pins (1 point) for a total of 5 points. The other team won one game and got 2 points.

Confused yet???

Don’t worry if you don’t get it. If I’m not there, Esme can usually help or the other teams are usually good with helping too. I just wanted to have the explanation out there, so you have the info if you care!