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A bowling league is a competitive event in which teams bowl against each other over the course of a season. Most bowling leagues consist of four-player teams that meet up once a week or once every other week, usually at the same day and time. Teams of three or five players are also common. Leagues can be set up as male-only, female-only, or mixed.
Inside 1970s computer console apparatus. Automatic equipment is considered a cornerstone of the modern bowling center. The traditional bowling center of the early 20th century was advanced in automation when the pinsetter person ("pin boy"), who set back up by hand the bowled down pins, [1] was replaced by a machine that automatically replaced the pins in their proper play positions.
Tour points are awarded for most events. Besides the season-ending Harry Smith PBA Points Winner award, points are one consideration for Player of the Year voting, and also affect eligibility for the PBA Tour Playoffs and PBA Tour Finals (combined with 2020 points). Points for tournaments are awarded differently based on a "tier" system.
In association football, where draws are relatively common, many leagues give 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw in an attempt to encourage attacking play. Besides the traditional 2–1–0 points and newer 3–1–0 points systems for win-draw-loss, various other systems have been used to try to encourage attractive play. Some examples:
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A ten-pin bowling score sheet showing how a strike is scored 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 mach
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After the Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) folded in 2003, the PBA opened its membership to women for the first time this season. Missy Bellinder (now Missy Parkin) was the first woman to become a PBA member. Liz Johnson became the first woman to qualify for a PBA Tournament when she made match play at the Uniroyal Tire Classic.