I haven't been to league since the holidays, its not fun and theres a million other things id rather be doing. I go, I pay, I watch for a bit, then I leave.

I enjoy league, but maintaining focus becomes a problem. You pretty much know where to play every week (barring an oil machine malfunction) in most houses, so your brain may "turn off" at times.

I'm going through a similar funk, and I keep telling myself to focus better. I don't. My fear is that could impact my tournament performance, but it probably doesn't....that's what practice sessions are for.

Enjoy your friends during league, and don't get too low or too high (emotionally) on the THS.

I feel your pain as well.  Recently keeping track of scores via app mainly since I told my 2 high school kids that it feels like they strke more than I do, but I score more just because I fill frames.  Well, I'm filling frames 93.3% with a 54.9% strike rate.  My boys strike rate is even with me, but my girl is 10% lower.  My clean frames is 7-10% better than theirs though.  Makes me focus on spares more knowing that I have to show my kids what I did.

Strikes are another story in that bouncing the dry boards scatters the pins like crazy, but I still leave single pins and the get the occasional big ugly (taking our 1-2-5-8 on strike ball anyone?).  Keeping in the oil leads to lots of flat 10, ring 10 combos.  Tried different hand positions, speed changes, different balls without success makes a THS feel hard and wondering why I can't figure it out. Grinding out isn't much fun when there are multiple honor scores around you.

I think I've stumbled on a little recently in that all this pressure to strike has lead to squeezing and muscling my swing.  I'm going to try going for 80% effort to smooth things out.  Freeing up the swing is always a good thing anyway.

Pile another week on... Struggles are turning into a slump!

Guess I can't expect too much, I bowl 3 games a week right now.