Bowling league

Leagues were established soon after the most modern types of bowling were created in the late 1800s.

In most bowling leagues, each team plays three games per scheduled match.

This way the bowlers on each team are equally exposed to favorable or unfavorable lane conditions.

For example, a player that commits a foul might provoke a heated confrontation with other bowlers if he or she does not declare the required zero score for the throw.

There are often weekly and seasonal cash prizes, along with betting pools that go along with the game.

The first person to get a certain number of strikes or spares wins the total amount of money that everyone put in.

League standings are published after each session, and teams with more points at the end of a season (or end of a half in split seasons) generally win the most money or a special prize.

The number of sanctioned perfect (300) games per league bowler has increased substantially since the 1990s. Freeman and Hatfield posit that the increase in perfect games is due to factors such as the introduction of reactive resin coverstocks, asymmetric ball cores, synthetic lane surfaces, and precision lane oiling machines.