MY LANE PLAY

Screen shot from My Lane
Play's frame-by-frame mode

Yesterday I mentioned My Lane Play (for Android), a bowling application that helps bowlers track everything imaginable about their games. It catalogs the balls in one's arsenal, the places one bowls, and the outcome of every frame of league, tournament, or open play that one cares to record.. It keeps statistics and notes for any part of the game a bowler desires.

My Lane Play allows one to enter the frame-by-frame results of each game. After each shot in frame-by-frame mode, one selects each pin left standing. At the end of the game, it will display the single-pin and multi-pin spare percentages, the strike percentage, the pocket hit percentage, the crossover percentage, etc. It will collect this information for all of the games one saves. It can be broken down by league, tournament or practice, by oil pattern, and by bowling center.

One can examine his/her overall single-pin, multi-pin, split, and strike percentages for every single game recorded. It can be broken down on the calendar to see how one bowled between specific start and end dates. It will even email  the stats so one can maintain them on one's computer or share them with friends.

This is a sample of the statistical record that was produced by six games I bowled for practice. My game scores were 181, 178, 179, 163, 174, and 179. Here are the details:

Pin & Lane Play Stats For
Player: Mark

PIN MADE ATT  PCT
  1    0   0   0%
  2    0   0   0%
  3    3   3 100%
  4    0   0   0%
  5    2   2 100%
  6    1   1 100%
  7    2   2 100%
  8    0   0   0%
  9    2   2 100%
 10    6   8  75%

PINS  MADE ATT  PCT
3~10     1   1 100%
2~7      0   0   0%
3~9      0   0   0%
2~8      0   0   0%
4~7      8   8 100%
6~10     2   2 100%
3~6~10   2   2 100%
2~4~7    0   0   0%
1~2~4~10 0   0   0%
1~3~6~7  0   0   0%
3~6~9~10 0   0   0%
2~4~7~8  0   0   0%

                MADE ATT   PCT
Pocket Hits       26  65   40%
Strikes           15  65   23%
Brooklyns         13  65   20%
Carry             15  26   57%
Spares            37  47   78%
Single Pin Spares 16  18   88%
Multi-Pin Spares  21  29   72%
Splits             1   9   11%
Washouts           0   0    0%
Pocket Carry      11  26   42%
Non-Split Spares  36  38   94%

10 open frames out of 60: 16%
0 pocket split(s) out of 26 pocket hits: 0%
Carry (15 Strikes out of 26 Poc Hits) = 57%

Other Stats
1st Roll Avg: 8.56

Pretty cool, eh? Except for two stinking ten pins and my splits, I did a good job converting spares. I could have put up some decent scores if I bowled more strikes but I had only 15 strikes in 65 attempts. Ouch. This was at Castro Village Bowl, by the way.

I've experimented with several free bowling applications and I've found most of them do a fine job of tracking scores. This is the only one that had so many useful features that I was willing to pay for it. The price was $8.99.