Bowling against an injury score, match point league

[Frank Goebel]

This occured on my own pair. My teammate fell when his knee gave out on his first delivery in the fourth frame. Knocking down zero, he stopped bowling at that point. Per the injury rules outlined in rule 108a, he received zero for his fourth frame, and for frames five through ten, the appropriate scores added to what he had scored through frame three. The resulting injury score was a 145, with his his 167 average. Handicap 56, handicap score 201.

The opponent had an average of 156. His score for the game was 141. His handicap 66, his handicap score 207.

We use the standard ten-pin rule below one's average when bowling against an absentee or vacancy. However, since the score was partly bowled, it shouldn't be treated as an absentee, but rather against the live score since at the beginning of the game, there was an actual bowler participating.

The match point rule (rule 100k) line 3 reads "When bowling against an absentee or vacancy..." But this isn't an absentee, is it? It did become an absentee for game two, which was subsequently won by the opponent.

BLS scored this as a loss for the opponent, awarding the point to the injured player's team (mine). I told the other team that my interpretation was that this wasn't truly an absentee, and that I was awarding the point to that bowler and their team. I had to do a points override for both that individual and both teams.

As things turned out, this was a position round and our teams went 12-12 for the night with our teams maintaining our positions in the lower half of our league. Our teams are still in the same positions as before tonight. And both of our teams, while interested in bowling well, are there more for the fun and competition takes a secondary role.

[Lance Rasmussen]

Frank,

you are correct. The game partially bowled is considered, in competitive sense, as if he was present and is not considered an absentee or vacancy so those league rules do not apply. His score is treated as an injury in the sense that what he bowled will not count towards his average.