There's a rule in our scratch league that bit us last week, and I find it kind of suspect.  The blind score is 200.  Our season is divided into thirds, and you can only use your average as an absent score once per third, or you have to use 200.  You CAN choose when you want to use your average, it's not like the first time you can't make it you have to use it, but here's the other side of the coin.  If your average is UNDER 200, you STILL get the option to use 200 if you aren't there.  We had a good week last week and got almost all the points, but the last game we should have won by 1, but actually lost by 6 because this guy got to use 200 instead of his real average of 193.  Is it a big deal?  Nah, the prize fund is flatter than any handicap league I've ever seen, everybody basically just uses it as a savings account and splits the added money up.  It's the least scratch scratch league I've ever seen, but it's the combination of the rules that get me. 

You can only use your average once per third so that you don't get a big average for a couple weeks and then take the next few weeks off and use your average.  Two lane courtesy (which we actually just vetoed a couple weeks ago).  We have league shirts that we MUST wear, or we get fined that night, there are no warnings.  You don't pay that night, you can't bowl.  Then the blind score rule of 200.  Yet we have a super flat prize fund.  I'm not sure what all these rules are protecting, it's a glorified good ol boy league but they're super militant with the rules.  I don't like that you get to use 200 if you aren't there even if your average is under.  If you join a scratch league averaging 190, sorry, you know what you're getting yourself into.  Don't get it . .