Quote from: Bowler19525 on February 20, 2020, 02:07:23 PM

Quote from: milorafferty on February 20, 2020, 12:20:37 PM

Until bowling comes up with a somewhat standardized scoring display, it probably will not happen.

As someone involved in creating software, why the hell are there so many different scoring systems anyway? Every bowling alley seems to have their own version.

Different companies, AMF, Qubica, Brunswick, USBowling, etc. with different software and user interfaces.  The systems are expensive, hard to upgrade, have different system requirements, etc. 

Trying to get the bowling industry to agree on a standard for automated scoring would be impossible.  It would be easier to convince bowling centers to go back to overhead projectors and manual scoring!

Now try having your center rip out the vintage Big B system and install an AMF one...in the middle of the season. No confusion there or anything! 

Been there, did that.

Sunset Lanes (now Wildfire Lanes), Henderson, NV. in 1999 going into 2000, they ripped out everything Brunswick - the A2 pinsetters, black/white scoring monitors that had the tube monitors.. even the lanes.. brought in the lanes from Arizona Charlie's that had just closed, and put in the magnetic pinsetters and scorekeepers from Mendes. Pro to that: you can respot your own pins to practice spares, etc. Cons to that: you could get a potentially horribly offset pin on a full rack. And then came the learning curve.

At the time, it had the toughest, most competitive leagues in all of Vegas.. now, not so much, especially since they dropped from a 40 lane house to a 24 lane house, and Sunset Station opened up shop.

BL.

Quote from: notclay on February 20, 2020, 09:30:00 AM

It's bowling. If someone is seriously that desperate for a point then that's their problem, not mine.
I have had my butt kicked so many times over the years I have calluses. I've been on both ends of the whooping, and either way it's just bowling...

its not so much for a point, more so for the sake of time.  it happens too much, put a penalty on it and i bet more people will take the second or two it takes to look at the scoreboard.  our house also has issues with lanes breaking down, its an issue we're trying to get worked on as well.  but pair the lane issues with people bowling on the wrong lane more often than they should and shit adds up.  3 person league taking over 2.5 hours to bowl 3 games

Do you know bowlers?   

Add a penalty to that and just watch how much time you save.  First will come the excuses, then the apologies, then the argument before someone has to go and get a league officer before trying to figure out how to correct the monitor to show the penalty.  I doubt you would actually save any time rather than just correcting the monitor and moving on as we do now.