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The conversion chart seems to work pretty close in my opinion. Where it gets skewed is the bowler that has a high average because they are a massive wall-baby and book 230+ and get on tight conditions and quickly find out they are pretty one dimentianal players. If you bowl on a Sport and then convert your average up it is what you probably really are. My guess is if the Tacoma Travel League was still around the converted Sport Averages would be pretty close to the final averages from Travel (at least for the years Lincoln and Chalet were included).
As for why you can't just say +10 or some striaght line application like that is bowlers are very different. A 150 average player is not really impacted by condition. For the most part they are not really accurate and not good spare shooters. There problem is not the oil pattern. A 185 average on a THS in todays environment is greatly impacted by Sport Conditions because in general these people can hit an area and get strikes, they just can't hit spares,otherwise they would average 200. From 200 to probably about 220 you have decent spare shooters and some sense of accuracy. above 220 you generally have pretty accurate players and good spare shooters. Now the real variance comes in if they are a a 220+ everywhere or a 220+ when the can stand left-throw right or play straight up 5 (for the lefties) and a 200 if that is not there.... Bowling averages willnever be perfect so as long as we all play by the rules given we all have the same advantages and disadvantages.
BTW- Steve Kloempken is an awesome player....
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