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RULE 1: - ABC and League Rules
The following rules are provided for by ABC rules. If a situation occurs where there is no league rule, then ABC rules will apply.
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RULE 2: - Schedule
The league will consist of 10 teams, each with a roster of 4 men, and will bowl on Wednesday at 6:45P.M. on lanes 31 to 40 for 36 weeks commencing on September 8, 1999 and ending on May 10, 2000.
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RULE 3: - Entering Averages - Team
A. No new team may have an entering average in excess of 760.
B. Any established 760 League team which had averaged in excess of 760 in the previous season may return as a team only if all 4 members of the team return.
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RULE 4: - Entering Averages - Bowlers
A. Entering averages will be based on the following:
1. Previous season's 760 League average
2. Previous season's highest ABC sanctioned league average
3. 1. or 2. above from 2 years ago
B. Entering averages will be based on 21 games or more.
C. A new league member who does not have an entering average will be given a 150 average to determine his team's eligibility into the league.
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RULE 5: - Establishing Averages
A. Entering averages for regular league members, subs, and replacements will be used for the first 9 games bowled for handicapping and eligibility purposes. For the 10th game and thereafter, current average will be the established average.
B. Regular league members, subs, and replacements who do not have an entering average must bowl 3 games on the first night they bowl in order to establish an average for handicapping purposes. Thereafter, a current average is established
weekly.
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RULE 6: - Special Rules for Subs
A. A list of subs will be maintained by the league secretary.
B. All subs are roving or floating so that they may bowl for any team provided the team's average will not then exceed 760.
Note: This rule is waived for subs who have no entering average until a 9-game average is established.
C. No subs are allowed in the final 3 weeks of the season.
D. Subs do not qualify for any league prizes or awards.
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RULE 7: - Special Rules for Replacements
A. If the current team average will then be over 760, the replacement's entering average (or current 760 League average if he has one) may be no more than 10 pins above the bowler's current average whom he is replacing.
B. No replacements are allowed in the final 3 weeks of the season.
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RULE 8: - Handicapping
The handicap allowance will be 80% of the difference of the two opposing teams' averages.
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RULE 9: - Standings and Points
A. The league uses a 7-point system. 2 points are awarded for each game won and 1 point for the total pinfall plus handicap.
B. Team standings at season's end will be determined by the total number of points accumulated. If a tie exists, the total number of wins will decide. If a tie still exists, a 1-game roll-off will take place (only for trophy positions - 1st,
2nd, 3rd).
C. If a tie in number of points and wins exists at any other time in the season, the team with the higher current average will be given the higher standing.
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RULE 10: - Legal Line-up
A. A team must have at least 2 members of its current roster bowling before the start of the 4th frame of any game to have a legal line-up. If a team does not have a legal line-up, the opposing team must beat its own team average less 20 pins
in order to win points. Points are split in the event of a tie. All money from points not won in this manner will be deposited in the league treasury.
B. A bowler who arrives late may enter the game provided the 4th frame has not begun. Frames missed may be made up.
C. If a team drops out of the league at any time during the season, the procedure outlined in Rule 10A must be followed by all teams scheduled to bowl against that team.
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RULE 11: - Absentee and Vacancy Scores
A. The absentee (blind) score will be the absent member's current league average (or entering average if a 9-game average has not been established) less 10 pins.
B. The vacancy score will be 150.
C. If a team at season's start has a legal line-up but less than a full roster, the team will use the vacancy score for each vacancy in the line-up until a full roster is obtained.
D. If a vacancy occurs on a team after the bowler who left the team had established a 9-game average, the absentee score of that bowler will be used for 3 weeks if a suitable replacement is not found. After 3 weeks, the vacancy score must be
used.
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RULE 12: - Prizes and Prize Money
A. Trophies will be awarded to each team member whose team finishes in 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
B. Trophies will be awarded to individual members for high average, high game, high series, most 200's and most improved 760 League bowler. To qualify for these awards, the bowler must finish the season, and to qualify for the high average and
most improved awards, he also must have bowled at least 2/3 of the scheduled games.
C. A bowler who qualifies for more than one of the high average, game and series trophies may receive only one of the trophies. The other trophy(ies) will be awarded to the runner(s)-up in the other category(ies).
D. The ABC League Achievement Award (ABC Most Improved) will be awarded in accordance with ABC rules with the additional stipulation that the bowler must finish the season.
E. The award for Most Improved in the 760 League will be awarded to that bowler who shows the most improvement in average in the 760 League from the previous season to the next.
F. Team prize money will be based on the total number of points accumulated by the team by season's end and will be awarded in accordance with the league budget given to each team captain at the start of the season.
G. Prize money will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers for individual high average, high game and high series, and team high game and high series in accordance with the league budget. Team awards are based on scratch plus
handicap totals.
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RULE 13: - Payments and Payment Default
A. All teams will pay league weekly dues and entry fees in accordance with the league budget.
B. Team captains will be responsible for the collection of all league weekly dues and entry fees, and ABC and Bergen County Bowling Association membership applications and dues.
C. The league entry fee and ABC/BCBA dues are payable within 2 weeks after the season's start.
D. Weekly dues must be paid by each team prior to weekly bowling.
E. If a sub is used, weekly dues for the absent bowler must still be paid.
F. If a bowler's dues account shows any arrearages for 2 consecutive weeks, he cannot bowl on the 3rd and succeeding weeks until his arrearages are paid in full. His blind score must be used while he is so suspended from league membership.
G. If a bowler's dues account shows any arrearages for more than 2 consecutive weeks, a team captains' meeting must be held immediately after bowling on the 3rd week in order to discuss the arrearage and resolve the team's problem.
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RULE 14: - League Board of Directors
A. The league Board of Directors will consist of the team captains and the league officers.
B. League officers cannot also be team captains or serve as team representatives.
C. Each member of the league Board of Directors is entitled to 1 vote on any league issue.
D. At any captain's meeting, 2/3 of the team captains or representatives must be present to constitute a quorum. A majority vote will settle any issue.
E. A league Board of Directors meeting will be held yearly approximately 1 month before season's end for the purposes of election of league officers, planning the upcoming year's budget, rules changes and any other league business.
F. The Secretary/Treasurer's fee will be 3.75% of the total dues and entry collected (excluding ABC/BCBA dues).
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RULE 15: - Miscellaneous Rules
A. Pacers will not be allowed at any time.
B. Refusal to bowl:
1. Any bowler has the option to not start any or all games that his team is scheduled to bowl if he so chooses. His absentee (blind) score would be used if a sub or replacement is not used.
2. Any bowler, having started a game, who refuses to finish the game for reasons other then injury or emergency will be given a zero score for all those frames missed.
C. Inclement weather or family emergencies - If a team cannot have a legal line-up due to severe inclement weather or a family emergency, Rule 10 is temporarily suspended provided the following procedures are adhered to:
1. A league officer or lane personnel must be informed of the situation prior to the start of bowling.
2. If the opposing team has a legal line-up present, it has the option either to bowl unopposed with the absent team bowling against their scores the following week or to have the match rescheduled.
3. If both opposing teams do not have a legal line-up present, the match must be rescheduled.
4. If the opposing team chooses to bowl unopposed, any member of the absent team team who is present must leave the lanes so that scores can be kept confidential.
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RULE 16: - Complaints, Disputes, Protests
All complaints, disputes, and protests which cannot be resolved by the league officers will be heard and acted upon at a captain's meeting in which all teams are represented. A majority vote will settle the issue.
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