Got a question for you that live on other areas. I will say I live in the SW.

8 lane house, 5 man teams, lineage is $9 and we only pay $16, so you can imagine how low the prize fund is. In addition, since we have a bunch of almost socialists who want to bowl this league at 90% handicap, the differential between 1st and last is almost nothing. If it was up to me, we would got o 70% and take the roughly $6k per year and split it $1500 for first, $1000 for second, and $500 for third for each half. No roll off bonus and if your team is lower than 3rd, tough S$%^!

If this league was in your home town, what would we be paying for the league and how much into the prize fund every night?

Thanks for the feedback.

Lineage depends on the house and league format around here. The ones I know run $10.50 to $12.00 for lineage on 3 games.

Leagues fees vary wildly. Most are in the $12.00 to $15.00 range. The higher payout leagues will generally run $20.

While some of the payouts maybe top heavy all the leagues I know of pay every place.

If you want to kill the league make it where 3 or 4 teams take all the money every year.

Lineage is 10.50 here.  Our scratch league has a late league discount that makes it 9, I believe, and most of the leagues around here are 14-17 dollars.  One of our leagues spreads the money around fairly evenly, but has a big pot for the top couple teams in a few position rounds at the end of the season, so trying to make that feels more like an incentive rather than an exclusion.  Our scratch league also has a lot of singles action, so even if your team isn't doing that great, you can make quite a bit of money if you're bowling well.