Talked with the lane man yesterday and here's the low down on what he plans to do with the shot this year.  It will start out, for the first few/several weeks, being pretty tough.  Not quite as tough as the shot in our summer league, but close, according to him.  Then, 8 or 10 weeks in, he plans to soften the shot up until late in the year it's pretty walled up.    What's your reaction to this?  Should the shot start easy and get harder?  Hard then easy?  Or, should it more or less remain the same all year?  I think many of us would like to see several contrasting shots throughout the year, but that isn't what we're going to get.  
Oh, yeah, he plans on forcing people to move out of their "stand on 24, hit 10 at the arrows" shot.  According to him this years shot will be outside of 7 (a place I personally really like).  Is this fair to everyone who has never, ever had to get outside of 10?
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Since everyone will be bowling on it, where ever the shot is, I view as fair.  

I would rather have a somewhat consistent shot from week to week.  Unless there is a reason, such as a new lane machine, I think the shot at the end of league should be about the same as the beginning.
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The slight problem I have with this is that it's almost like organized sandbagging.  It's almost guaranteed that your average will be lower at the beginning of the year than it would be on a THS.  It really isn't sandbagging, but it has a sort of odd feel to it, imo.
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Rag’s I agree with you. My first reaction was that it would help the higher average bowlers.

The better bowlers will have a greater drop in their average than the mid to lower range averages.

They will get to set these lower averages and then as the shot improves so will their scores at a greater rate than the others giving them an advantage towards the end of the season as if they had bagged it.  

I would say he needs to either randomly change the shot during the year on a weekly basis making it the luck of the draw on a given week or leave it the same for the whole year.

I would rather see a good shot put out every week but the placement of that shot would change. In other words the wall might be on 7 this week, 17 the next week, 12 the next, etc, etc, etc. That way the bowlers who read the lanes the best could still find a good line to the pocket but wouldn’t have their averages artificially lowered.