Author Topic: Speaking of the Bakers format... (Read 546 times)

REVOLUTIONS PS · « **on:** April 11, 2004, 05:48:38 AM »

When I was in junior bowling, we would bowl a team-Baker game at the end of three regular games on position days. I was thinking about how much I enjoyed that while I was reading the NCAA post.

How many of you would enjoy that kind of Baker format game in your league(s)?

REVOLUTIONS PS · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2004, 09:14:49 PM »

What we used to do is we would bowl three regular games in a five person team format and then at the end of that bowl 1 Baker's game for an extra five points. Even though each bowler only gets two frames, it's kinda cool and it is different.

We used to have a very popular tournament here that was a Baker's doubles format. Five games moving a pair to the right after each game and then all qualifying teams would bowl in a low game knock out for as many games as it took to get down to one winner. That format is being used in the Detroit area these days, I know Lew Ansara (spelling?) is involved with it.

MSC2471 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2004, 11:18:23 PM »

Baker games came into play during my sophomore year of college bowling. Teaching people to bowl only 2 frames takes a lot of discipline, as you can easily see if you don't have a good line to the pocket how a split or a missed spare can take you out of the 200 range in a hurry.

Often we would bowl 10 team games in a tournament and then have 12 Baker games- and you would really be able to tell the colleges that had the team mindset from the ones who couldn't pull it together. If you can throw consistent 200-210 games in Bakers you are doing well- whereas we were often in the 160-180 range.

Matt

Author Topic: Speaking of the Bakers format... (Read 546 times)

REVOLUTIONS PS

Speaking of the Bakers format...

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