Best bet is to try it for yourself. A player or league average can be high despite difficult conditions. Or, if you are in that house, observe some bowlers, their styles and the results.
I play in two very different houses - one with a real sports pattern (40' flat, no dry outside boards), the other with a medium Xmas tree pattern PLUS 7(!) dry outside boards - even a chimpanzee could make a ball hook and strike!
If I take a look at the average of the leagues in these houses, but are quite similar - the best players in the 200+ region. But in the sport shot house, this is premier league and some semi-pros (official sport performance site in Germany), and in the easy house wannbe-dudes (like me, too
) who benefit from the easy pattern. In the demanding house, I currently play a 150 average with single 200+ games every now and then. Since 1994, there has only been 1 clean 300 game until today, and this was during a training session!
In the easy house, it is a 175... although I have to play completely different in these places.
Best way to find a DIFFICULT house will be to ask for the oil pattern. If you get a detailed reply, chances are good that it will be demanding. Additionally, if this house is the place of official legaue tournaments (not house competition), these chances are also good but not a must.
If you do not get any reply concerning oil ("What?!"), I'd rather stay away...
The worst case I encountered so far was in my holidays, a lane in a resort where there was NO oil at all. You could not use professioanl equipment. Even a polyester with a fingertip was out of control. But that's demanding just the other way around...
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DizzyFugu --- Reporting from Germany
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream..." - Edgar Allen Poe
Edited on 5/25/2005 7:21 AM
Edited on 5/25/2005 7:22 AM
