Frame 1
50%
Spare 33%
Open 17%
Open 17%
house 34%
Eastern Shore Lanes · Individual Bowler Report · 2026–27 Fall Season
MIKE STARLING
Guys & Dolls League (Tuesdays) · Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League (Mondays) · all scores scratch · September 14, 2026 – October 26, 2026
219
Average · 24 games
255
High game
713
High series
221
Guys & Dolls avg
219
Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point avg
24 games for 5,270 pins; over 200 in 19 of 24 games.
By league
Guys & Dolls League
Tuesdays · team Splits & Giggles · missed 7 nights
Average (3 games)221
High game235
High series664
600+ series nights1 of 1
200+ games3 of 3 (100%)
Next week to raise avg +1 Pin668 Series
Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League
Mondays · team No Excuses · bowled every night
Average (21 games)219
High game255
High series713
600+ series nights6 of 7
200+ games16 of 21 (76%)
League rank (13+ games)5 of 77
Next week to raise avg +1 Pin674 Series
Season arc (first 3 → last 3 nights)221 → 220 (-1)
Guys & Dolls League — series by week
Oct 6 → Oct 6. Red-capped bars are nights well above their own average; dotted gaps are nights not bowled. Averaged 664 a night.
Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League — series by week
Sep 14 → Oct 26. Red-capped bars are nights well above their own average; dotted gaps are nights not bowled. Averaged 658 a night.
How the season is going — Guys & Dolls League
The week-by-week trend, rolling average, consistency card and game-by-game pattern appear after week 2.
How the season is going — Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League
Dots are your games; the solid line is your average each night, the dashed line is the Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League average that night, the maple line is your rolling last nine games.
Form
Season average (21 games)219
Last nine games220 +1
Last night (Oct 26)237
Consistency
Spread (std dev of games)24.5
Floor · ceiling (10th / 90th pct game)182 · 247
Games within 15 pins of average43%
Game by game
| You | League | Nights | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game 1 | 229 | 182 | 7 |
| Game 2 | 213 | 182 | 7 |
| Game 3 | 214 | 178 | 7 |
Game 3 runs 15 pins below game 1 (three-game nights only).
Ball by ball
Frame-level detail from the scoring system, frames 1–9 (the 10th is tracked separately). 24 of 24 games reconstruct to their exact score from the frames and are counted here. House column is every adult league this season.
| You | House | |
|---|---|---|
| First-ball average (pins) | 9.40 | 8.41 |
| Strike rate | 58.3% | 34.8% |
| Spare conversion | 80.0% | 49.1% |
| Open frames per game | 0.75 | 2.99 |
| 10th-frame first-ball strike | 54.2% | 34.9% |
| Single-pin spares (67 chances) | 89.6% | 67.3% |
| The 10-pin (6 chances) | 100.0% | 54.3% |
| The 7-pin (28 chances) | 78.6% | 62.7% |
| Multi-pin, no split (13 chances) | 84.6% | 44.4% |
| Splits (10 chances) | 10.0% | 13.3% |
| Longest strike run in a game | 7 | 10 |
What you leave most
7
28 times
6
18 times
8
7 times
10
6 times
4
5 times
6-10
3 times
4-7
3 times
3-5-6
2 times
Splits: left 10, converted 1 (10.0%). Most common: 4-6-10 (2), 2-7 (2), 4-6-7-8-10 (1), 7-10 (1).
The 10-pin: 6 chances, 100% made — house makes 54%.
If every single pin had fallen
Every single pin you left and missed, counted as made, with the whole game re-scored — a spare picks up the next ball as well. The 10th counts here too, so this can include a pin the frames 1–9 table above does not: a single pin left on the first ball of the 10th becomes a spare with the fill ball counted as a strike, the best it could have been, while a single pin left on the fill after a strike simply counts as knocked down.
| Night | Series | Would have been | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 713 | 713 | — |
| Oct 19 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 691 | 700 | +9 |
| Oct 12 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 576 | 600 | +24 |
| Oct 6 Guys & Dolls | 664 | 676 | +12 |
| Oct 5 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 631 | 641 | +10 |
| Sep 28 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 677 | 699 | +22 |
| Sep 21 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 667 | 667 | — |
| Sep 14 Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point | 651 | 651 | — |
| Season 24 games | 5270 | 5347 | +77 |
That is 7 single pins over 24 games: +77 pins, and a 222 average instead of 219.
Ball speed
Average first ball14.8 mph
Range14.0 – 15.2
House median13.7 mph
Average by pair
Lanes 1–2 (6 games)206
Lanes 3–4 (3 games)225
Lanes 5–6 (3 games)222
Lanes 7–8 (3 games)217
Lanes 9–10 (3 games)237
Lanes 11–12 (3 games)230
Lanes 15–16 (3 games)210
Frame by frame
Strike, spare and open rate in each frame, shaded by strike rate; the small figure is the house strike rate in that frame. Same 24 games as the ball-by-ball sheet; the 10th counts a strike on the first ball and a spare on the first two.
Frame 2
54%
Spare 42%
Open 4%
Open 4%
house 34%
Frame 3
71%
Spare 17%
Open 12%
Open 12%
house 35%
Frame 4
50%
Spare 46%
Open 4%
Open 4%
house 35%
Frame 5
62%
Spare 33%
Open 4%
Open 4%
house 35%
Frame 6
54%
Spare 33%
Open 12%
Open 12%
house 35%
Frame 7
62%
Spare 29%
Open 8%
Open 8%
house 35%
Frame 8
62%
Spare 33%
Open 4%
Open 4%
house 36%
Frame 9
58%
Spare 33%
Open 8%
Open 8%
house 35%
10th
54%
Spare 33%
Open 12%
Open 12%
house 35%
Big figure = strike rate in that frame (shaded by it)Spare / Open = share of the same frames that ended in a spare or an openSmall figure = house strike rate
Stringing them
| You | House | |
|---|---|---|
| Double rate (strike after a strike, 146 chances) | 59.6% | 42.0% |
| Turkeys (three in a row) | 25 1.04/game | 0.38/game |
| Four-baggers | 11 0.46/game | 0.16/game |
| Clean games (no open frame) | 10 of 24 | 8% |
| Carry (strikes vs nine-counts: 126 strikes, 67 nines) | 65.3% | 56.6% |
Ball speed and strikes
| First-ball speed | Games | Your strike rate | House |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14–15 mph | 14 | 56.3% | 42.4% |
| 15–16 mph | 10 | 61.1% | 43.6% |
Speed is the scoring system’s first-ball average for the game; strike rate is frames 1–9 of that game.
Speed drift in Guys & Dolls League: game 1 averages 14.6 mph, game 3 14.4 mph (-0.2 over 1 night).
Speed drift in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: game 1 averages 14.9 mph, game 3 14.8 mph (-0.1 over 7 nights).
Spares and leaves
Single pins, by pin
| Pin | Chances | You | House |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 2-pin | 1 | 100% | 78% |
| The 4-pin | 5 | 80% | 79% |
| The 5-pin | 1 | 100% | 73% |
| The 6-pin | 18 | 100% | 68% |
| The 7-pin | 28 | 79% | 63% |
| The 8-pin | 7 | 100% | 73% |
| The 9-pin | 1 | 100% | 79% |
| The 10-pin | 6 | 100% | 54% |
Splits, by type
| Type | Left | Made | You | House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baby splits 2-7 / 3-10 | 3 | 1 | 33% | 36% |
| Big four 4-6-7-10 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Greek church 4-6-7-8-10 / 4-6-7-9-10 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 3% |
| Other splits | 5 | 0 | 0% | 10% |
Named types are tallied by their exact pin leave. “Other splits” is every remaining split under the connected-pins rule: the headpin is down and what is left standing comes in two or more separate groups.
What the first ball leaves
| Balls | You | House | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strike | 126 | 58% | 35% | |
| One pin | 67 | 31% | 27% | |
| Two pins | 7 | 3% | 10% | |
| Split | 10 | 5% | 10% | |
| Three or more | 6 | 3% | 17% | |
| Nothing hit | 0 | 0% | 2% |
First balls in frames 1–9. A split is classed before the pin count (a 7–10 is a split, not two pins); “nothing hit” is a gutter ball or a foul.
Lanes and company — Guys & Dolls League
Your pairs vs everyone else on them
| Lanes | Your games | You | Everyone else | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | 3 | 221 | 155 (186 games) | +66 |
Head to head
Opponents are the bowlers on the other lane of your pair each night. Series compared when both sides bowled three games: beat 4, lost to 0 of 4 across 1 night.
Oct 6
Lanes and company — Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League
Your pairs vs everyone else on them
| Lanes | Your games | You | Everyone else | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | 3 | 192 | 179 (195 games) | +13 |
| 3–4 | 3 | 225 | 180 (198 games) | +45 |
| 5–6 | 3 | 222 | 178 (203 games) | +44 |
| 7–8 | 3 | 217 | 178 (204 games) | +39 |
| 9–10 | 3 | 237 | 178 (189 games) | +59 |
| 11–12 | 3 | 230 | 182 (197 games) | +48 |
| 15–16 | 3 | 210 | 180 (185 games) | +30 |
Best pair so far: 9–10 (237 over 3 games); toughest: 1–2 (192 over 3 games). Pairs with three or more games.
Head to head
Opponents are the bowlers on the other lane of your pair each night. Series compared when both sides bowled three games: beat 28, lost to 4 of 32 across 7 nights.
Oct 26
Oct 19
You 691 on lanes 11–12 · W Caleb Perry 555 W McKinley Ritchey 544 W Jeremy Sestile 535 W JoAnn Hall 471 W Camren Worm 430
Oct 12
You 576 on lanes 1–2 · L Christian Walston 702 W Mike Whittington 573 W Tyler McCready 534 W Wally Whittington 441
Oct 5
You 631 on lanes 15–16 · L Pep White 747 L Craig Glovier 707 W Pete Mariner 590 W Keith Aydelotte 504
Sep 28
You 677 on lanes 3–4 · W Billy Northam 630 W Chase Fisher 549 W Don Lilly 481 W Tyler Quick 469 W Skip Tyler IV 427
Sep 21
You 667 on lanes 5–6 · W AJ Pitts Jr 596 W Matt Broyles 587 W Shannon Colonna 514 W Art Pitts Sr 511 W Devin Quick 504
Sep 14
You 651 on lanes 7–8 · L Jaheim Burrell 717 W James Lawrence 604 W Nate Metzger 588 W Rochelle Brown 581 W Terri Boggs 433
Where you stand
—
Guys & Dolls rank (needs 14+ games)
5 of 77
Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point rank (13+ games)
3 of 145
House rank, all adult bowlers
3 of 105
Among the men
193
Top ten starts at this average (Guys & Dolls)
Down 3 pins on last season in Guys & Dolls League: 221 now vs 224 in 2025–26 (6 games).
Down 7 pins on last season in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: 219 now vs 226 in 2025–26 (91 games).
Milestones
- First 200 game in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: Sep 14.
- First 600 series in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: Sep 14.
- Season high game in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: 255 on Oct 5.
- Season high game in Guys & Dolls League: 235 on Oct 6.
- Season high series in Guys & Dolls League: 664 (218–235–211) on Oct 6.
- First 200 game in Guys & Dolls League: Oct 6.
- First 600 series in Guys & Dolls League: Oct 6.
- Season high series in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: 713 (243–223–247) on Oct 26.
- First 700 series in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League: Oct 26.
Projections
Projections in Guys & Dolls League appear after week 2.
On pace for a 219 average in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League. To carry 220: 674 pins over the next 3 games (225 a game).
ESL Scratch Tour 2026-27
Week 8 of 1–16 · Qualifying · through Oct 27
A scratch competition across the house leagues — your league games count toward it, no handicap. Your games count for Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point. The field is locked.
2
Seed
3 of 40
Qualifying position
4,606
Qualifying pins (21 games)
+406
Against 200 a game
219
Qualifying average
Top 16 after qualifying (weeks 1–16) advance.
The moments
Sep 14
Best three-night run in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point: 651, 667, 677 — nine games at a 221 clip (Sep 14 to Sep 28).
Oct 6
High series in Guys & Dolls: 218–235–211 = 664.
Oct 26
High series in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point: 243–223–247 = 713.
Longest strike run in a single game in Guys & Dolls: 5 in a row.
Longest strike run in a single game in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point: 7 in a row.
Where 219 sits in Hickman's HVAC Peterson Point League
Scratch averages, bowlers with 13+ games. Standings, points and handicaps live in the league secretary’s book.
| # | Bowler | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jaheim Burrell | 21 | 234 |
| 2 | Pep White | 21 | 229 |
| 3 | Christian Walston | 18 | 222 |
| 4 | Craig Glovier | 21 | 220 |
| 5 | Mike Starling | 21 | 219 |
| 6 | BJ Thomas | 21 | 218 |
| 7 | Mike Whittington | 19 | 215 |
| 8 | Tiny Little | 21 | 214 |
| 9 | Billy Northam | 21 | 212 |
| 10 | Brian Throckmorton | 21 | 211 |