But again, I wouldn't necessarily call Walter Ray Williams a high rev player.  In fact, most of your strokers and power strokers tend to be on the average to below average revs.

On any shot that requires accuracy the strokers will have more success.  Any tight shot they tend to have a better chance of hitting their mark.  For a high rev player it is more difficult to make the ball roll over the same place and same breakpoint every time.

On a typical walled house shot I believe the high rev players have the advantage here.  They can spray the lane within a 5 or 6 board area and hit the pocket all day and carry everything.  Where as the strokers in the same situation can hit the pocket all day but leave more corners than anyone can count

--chris

I guess you left Pete out cause he is a CRanker? No he has a pile O' revs but he is not a cranker. He has got at least 26 titles so his name should also be mentioned on here. Past problems or not he has gotta be one hell of a bowler to have that many titles. Shame on you for letting his name off the list. He deserves as much spotlight as the rest of them probably more in my eyes cause to have the problems he HAD and still win that much and come thru it all and be where he is at TODAY is worthy of a applause in itself.

Hate to turn this into a PDW topic but give the guy his due whether you LOVE him OR hate him.


Oh and around here the fluffers got it good they are that walled up.
A fluffer can hit 15-5 and carry the house crankers are stuck playing the soup where you cannot get a rubber tire to turn the corner or try and bounce it off a 1 board area before it comes crashing back to the brooklyn side of the pocket or shreds the rack for a big old splitarooni.

It seems to me there was a guy named Mark Roth crankin up a storm while Earl Anthony was winning a lot of titles. Of course Roth won his fair share too. ;-)

I think there is no advantage between the two. Low rev players throw big hooking balls on a more direct line and the ball gives them more carry. High rev players can either play inside with the same ball, or paly outside with a weaker ball. With more revs usually comes more speed and causes more pin action. But at the same time, with today's equipment, almost any ball makes pins fly (unless your bowling the Peterson). Low revs rely on more accuracy, high revs rely on power. Of the bowlers round here, some of the best players  have lower revs, but there are a lot of players as well that rip the cover off of the ball and have equal success. Of the three best lefties around here (my opinion) 1 has low revs, one has a ton of rev's, and the 3rd is inbetween. As far as the righties go, 2 are on Team USA (Scott Pohl and Sam Lantto) and both are on the lower rev dept., a few more who avg. 220+ are lower revs, but a load more are high rev's and avg just as high. My teammate avg. 225 in our league, almost 230 in another and shot a load of honor scores this year (279+ about 10 times). He is a no thumber, but is just as accurate as any "stroker" around.

Overall, I say its a draw.
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If I could only pick up a 7 pin.....

High rev players SHOULD have more success, in my opinion. Low rev players only have more success because of new technology in bowling balls and when the lanes are purposely made tougher.

The more the new balls hook, the more they help low rev bowlers, gaining better carry and creating more area.

High rev bowlers don't need the balls to hook more. They can make it hook enough with all their revs and have better carry than strokers. The new hook in the box balls are usually too much ball for high rev players to even use, let alone control.

Oiling the lanes is supposed to be for protecting the wood. So, a laneman should not let the heads or track hook. This depletion of oil is bad for the lanes because they get worn out. So, if the laneman does his job properly, the heads will always be slick, the middles will never hook.

Therefore, the scores will always be high, and, the high rev players will have the advantage, like they should..!! =:^D

Edited on 6/7/2003 11:40 AM

I see it kind of like Belgarion does when he said, "On a tight shot, the strokers tend to have a better chance of hitting their mark. For a high rev player it is more difficult to make the ball roll over the same place and same breakpoint every time."

It just seems like the guys that are shooting the 300's and 800's around here are mostly straighter guys who keep their wrist flat, or straight, instead of cupped, or even slightly cupped. Where as, the power players, shoot really big one game and then shoot really low the next game.