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by Dahdscear on September 12th, 2005

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How do you determine a handicap and how is it used?

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  • by Farino on September 18th, 2005

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    I'm not a league bowler but I work in a bowling complex so bare with me. With certain age groups you get a certain handicap and with different genders you get a certain handicap and also how good you are. Say a 10 year old was playing a 20 year old, the 10 year old will get a handicap of about 30 I think and the 20 year old would get nothing. The scores get automatically added onto the handicap. So if you got 70 in your game and you had a handicap the your overall score will be 100. Say a woman is playing a man of the same age, the the woman would automatically get a higher handicap because women aren't generally as strong as men so they will on average knock less pins down. Say you have someone who bowls often and someone who doesn't, then the one who doesn't bowl often will have a higher handicap. Then it gets even more complex when you get different ages, genders and abilities bowling. But basically a handicap is a head start on the score to make it fairer, whoever has the lowest handicap is on average the best player.
    Definition: a disadvantage imposed on a superior competitor in sports such as golf and horse racing in order to make the chances more equal.
    http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/handicap?view=uk
    Yes, this is an opinion. The opinion of someone who knows what they are talking about because they work in that environment.
    At the end of the day, two people competing against each other will have an average. Highest minus the lowest, then this gets added onto the score of the person who has the lowest average at the end of the game or you add it on at the beginning then merely top up the scores. This way the odds of winning are equal.

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    • I am a league bowler of 9 years, and this is not an accurate way of determining or using bowling handicap

      samhaas

      by samhaas on January 29th, 2006

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