I’m a giant nerd. I love stats. To me, taking the time I have to try to add a little more to the ACST from a Stat-nerd perspective has really been a blast. It allows me to learn how to do things (and how to screw them up a million ways to Sunday) – but the Bowler Reports are kind of the heart of my project.
When (if) you were in kids leagues, you probably got a little cheap 3-fold piece of cardstock where you’d write down your league scores week after week (I believe Justin Waters still does this, and buys and eats Happy Meals).
So the Bowler Report (empty here before the season starts) was born and contains a TON of information.
On the left (sideways) – What Class, Conference and Division the bowler is in (South, A, Division 4)
The majority of this is the bowler’s schedule and results (AT representing Away matches, VS representing Home matches)
Bowler’s name and home house are at the top along with a breakdown of how many home/away strings they have bowled (they should be 45 each at the end of the season).
Then you have all the stats as well as splits between home and away ::
- GB – Games Behind the Division Leader
- Record – Points Won – Point Lost
- AVG – current average
- Pinfall – current total pins scored
- Hi Single – current high single for the season
- Hi Series – current high series for the season
- PB% – “Perfect Box” percentage :: the total of all tens, spares and strikes recorded out of boxes bowled. This isn’t 100% true, as throwing multiple marks in the 10th box can give you a little higher % – so make that last box count! 🙂
- X, /, 10 – The total number of Strikes (X), Spares (/) and Tens (10) thrown for the season
- LEFT – Pins left standing
- XF, /F – The amount of pins scored on Strike fills (XF) and Spare fills (/F)
- HP – The amount of recorded boxes in which the headpin knocked down on the first ball BY the ball (no sneaky back-door action here)
- SPL – The amount of recorded splits thrown (headpin is down and at least a 1-pin gap exists between remaining pins – 4/5/7/8 is not a split, but the spread eagle is because there’s a gap caused by the 5-pin being down.
Below that you will see the Bowler’s season schedule and results by match – who their opponent is and how their opponent performed in the match as well. This leads to the opposing average stats above so you can get a sense of the level of opposition they’ve been up against! As strings are thrown, they are “heat-mapped” from best (Green) to worst (Red) over the season as well!
These values are populated as bowlers submit their scoresheets (photos, print-outs, whatever) which are then converted into the standard ACST-Style Scoresheets I keep – the data comes from there! The Yellow Squares indicate boxes in which the headpin was hit by the ball on the first ball, the red circles indicate splits.
