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Andyman3333

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TEAM USA Trials Pts System
« on: January 05, 2012, 02:21:17 AM »
Flawed. 

 

I just can't see the benefit of using a system to determine your team that isn't used anywhere in the World for any tournament that these guys will be bowling in. 

 

Notes after two days...

 

*Kyle King would be the leader regardless if it was pts or total pins.

 

*Bradley Miller should is 2nd in total pins only 16 pins back, or one double in one game.  But 6th in the standings and would need to beat the first place guy by 25 positions to take the lead.  Not including the guys placed 2nd through 5th who he would also need to beat.  So not only does he basically need to finish in the top 3 positions, but he also needs other people to bowl bad.  So much for controlling your own destiny. 

 

*Toby Sambueno who lead after day one would be in the top 10 in total pins aftert a disappointing, but not horrible day two.  Instead, his 71st place finish in day 2 drops him to 27th overall position and literally out of contention.  He's only 106 pins back of 1st place, but 62 pts or 62 positions over the next two days.  The players he's lumped with in the 20's are an additional 70-100 pins back of the leader.  Same for Jarret Mizo.

 

Why do people continue to frig with the game and how we determine winners and losers.  I thought this game was about who knocked down the most pins.  Not who bowled the most consistent.  I haven't heard anything positive from the players I know bowling in this thing.  What do you guys think?

 


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spmcgivern

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Re: TEAM USA Trials Pts System
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 11:42:53 AM »
I agree.  The point system doesn't make sense to me when you consider a single tournament's outcome.  I heard about this change last year and wondered why they were doing it.  I even had a little conspiracy theory about why they would.  I checked the standings from last year's women's trials total pinfall method with the new point based method to see if any particular person who was left off somehow made it, but it wasn't anything worth noting.  After all the rounds were finished, the same people made the top 10 in both methods.

The only reason I feel they would do this is to encourage as competitive an environment as possible throughout the tournament.  True, one person wins a round by 200 doesn't get any special benefit, but everyone else doesn't feel they lost the tournament because of it.  That said, I do prefer the total pins method.  Will have to see how this year's tournament shakes out.


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