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Scolai

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PBA has a New Tournament Format
« on: December 21, 2004, 02:43:44 AM »
The PBA is responding to the requests of the fans and will be bringing back qualifying games before the match play format.  Changes will take affect with the first tournament in 2005 beginning on January 5th.  It will look something like this:

Wednesday - PTQ
Thursday - 64 bowlers bowl 14 games each in qualifying over 2 squads
Friday - Match play best-of-seven rounds of 32, 16, and 8
Saturday - Pro-Am events
Sunday - live televised finals

Should be pretty interesting to see how the bowlers hold up for 14 games.  A bowler could conceivably bowl as many as 37 games on the way to winning a title not counting practice sessions and pro-ams.
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tonybowls

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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2004, 01:18:47 PM »
It's a good move, this Match Play format is ridiculous. Too many top bowlers making early exits because of match play. Anybody can beat anybody in a best of 7 format.
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JOE FALCO

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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2004, 04:25:17 PM »
Pin nut .. are you saying in the round of 64 that the qualifiers will be based on high PIN FALL? .. if that's so I missed it in your description!

If that is the change .. it probable will give a lot more chances to some of the BETTER pros .. guys who get a lot of pins down and lose 4 out of seven! With 14 games they can win 6 of the games and knock out bowlers who won 8 games because of the HIGH pin fall!

Not being one of the PROS I really don't know which of the approaches is better!
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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2004, 06:58:45 AM »
Joe,  I think you missed something in the changes.  All 64 bowlers will bowl the 14 games, and the top 32 after 14 games, based on pin-fall will be seeded into the round of 32 match play.  The current rolling 20 tournament seeding will be used for the match play seeding. There is no match play until after the two 7-game blocks.
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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2004, 07:31:20 AM »
Thanks C .. dropped you a note!
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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2004, 06:02:51 PM »
I wonder how this is going to affect those players who have had success in the early part of this season? are we going to see these players who have relished and flourished in the pure cut-throat match play format disappear from TV entirely, as the telephone number blasters come to the fore?
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JOE FALCO

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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2004, 10:38:51 PM »
My guess is that you will start seeing the same faces every week .. In the first 8 weeks there have been a few repeaters .. I think the number of REPEATERS will greatly increase in the 2nd half! It's the same guys that put up the BIG NUMBERS .. but time will tell!
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Re: PBA has a New Tournament Format
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2004, 11:46:18 AM »
Heres a format that could work:

Exempt field of 80. PTQ (8 game qualifier) gets 15 entries (13 pros 2 amateurs) plus 1 commish exempt choice, field of 96 every week.

All 96 bowlers bowls 2 8 game blocks (16 games), cut to top 64. Those 64 bowl another 8 game block to get to top 32. Top 32 make match play.

Rd. 32 best of 7
Rd. 16 best of 7
Rd. 8 best of 7

Bring back the Wild card (the highest qualifying score of top 8 who did not advance) to bowl the guy with the lowest qualifying score of 4 finalists.
Semi final 1 features the 2 guys with the next highest scores, and semi #2 features the winner of the Wild Card match, and the highest qualifier. Finals are the 2 semi winners to determine the champion.

At most, an exempt player will bowl at the max 47 games, minimum of 38. An PTQ player will add 8 games to the total (55 and 46). It may sound like a lot of games, but it will give the bowlers more time to figure out the shot (in qualifying for match play) and also give some of the fans more bowling to watch, in person and on TV. Going from 64 to 96 means more bowlers have a chance to become exempt from the PTQ, more bowlers dont have to worry as much about winning to keep a job, but yet can stay steady throughout the year and still make it.

At the end of the year, the top 65 in points/wins are exempt for the next year, then the top regional players get their spots (7 of them), followed by the tour trials to fill the last 8 spots. All majors count as 2 year exemptions instead of 2-5, regular wins count as 1 year exemptions.

To me, this would be a system that has the new match play style, with the older qualifying format, and the current "look" of the PBA.

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