TRACK your Bowling score
This is the base functionality of the app, it allows you to register your bowling score while you play using your mobile phone.
You can click the pins to remove/reinsert them until they reflect your score. Once this is done you hit the OK button and your score is registered.
The All Pins button is useful if you want to remove all pins. It is same as simply clicking all the pins, one by one, but it is faster. You can use this when making a strike, but also you can use it if you get single pin, as you can raise the single pin after hitting the All pins button - it is faster.
While you play, all known splits are displayed by name as they occur. If you register a wrong score by accident, you can use the Undo button to correct your score.
In the end the final result is registered and the game is saved online for future reference. This include the location of the game, and this will be used to note down which bowling alley was used
Monitor your bowling stats
In the Performance screen you can see all your bowling stats in a single view.
The high score is the highest score of all registered games. The high score game is always labeled with a small yellow crown when looking at games.
The average is the average of all games, typically the average will climb gradually as you improve, but old games will naturally lower it down, so normally you should perform above average.
Strike percentage tells you how often you hit a strike. Strikes are important to get better at, but bowling is more than just strikes.
The non-split percentage will tell you how often you end up in a difficult spare shot. The app uses Wikipedia article on bowling splits as a reference.
First ball average is how much you score on your strike shot. A strike will contribute with 10, a single pin shot with 9 and so forth. This is the average of all your first shots.
Single pin percentage tells you how often just a single pin remain on your lane after first shot.
The clean percentage tells you how often you do strikes or spares. How often you clean the frame with your 2 shots.
Strike on strike tells you how often you make a strike after just making a strike.
Study your bowling pin fall
The pin fall is a very important information and a true option to improve your play.
The pin fall is ordered by frequency so that pin fall that happens more often are on the top.
Underneath each pin fall you will see how many times this combination happened to you and how often you manage to convert this pin fall to a spare.
Review your bowling games
Bowling by Raketten will save all your games in an online database, so that you can study your improvements over time.
The games are saved and presented by date in the game archive. All the total scores from a given date is listed and the total pin fall is calculated.
If the game took place on a listed bowling alley from our map, the location is also listed.
The high score game(s) are tagged with a small golden crone.
To study the details of the games click on the date.
Look into past bowling games
In this screen you are zoomed into a specific date and all games from that date is listed. The date is mentioned in the sub title.
In the screen you can see the specific pin fall per round. Pin fall from first shot is listed black, pin fall from second shot is listed in white and pins missed are listed as a white ring. Splits are marked in red.
When you no longer need the details, just hit the date again, and they will dissapear.
Follow your improvements
In the improvement screen you can compare the latest games towartd historic games using the same main KPI as in the Performance screen.
The last half of your games are mapped in green and the latter half is mapped in red.
In the screen to the right, you can see that the improvement actually is a small decline in my strike on strike percentage. The rest of the KPI are almost the same.
Spare Improvement Plan
Improving your spare game is essential at all levels. A fact that is often forgotten in the race forhigher strike percentages.
In this screen you can see how much you can improve your average if only you clean the frame by better spare game. The number is ften chocking.
Alongside with this motivation, the screen offers the 3 most expensive spares that are missed. Thiese spare could be a good place to spend practizing time.
The heatmap will highlight the pins that are causing spares not to be done.
Add your FAVORITE bowling alley to the map
There are so many bowling alleys in the world, thankfully, and we will try to add as many to our map as we can. However, we might miss out on your special place so we have added the feature to our map, that you can register a center by yourself.
This is done by hitting the addpin button in the upper right corner of the map and position the purple pin at the exact position of the bowling center.
In the screen at the bottom you can register the center information and click ok.
The bowling alley will not appear on the screen immediately, but will be available shortly after once we have reviewed and validated the information.
We thank you on beforehand to help us make the map better and better...
Find a bowling alley near you
In the map you will be able to see all bowling alleys near you.
You can click on the red marker to see the name and the website address and other information of the bowling alley in question.
Follow your bowling friends
By connecting to your bowling friends you can follow their games directly and automatically from within the app. Simply move to the social screen and you will see a timeline view with all their games in chronological order.
The social feed is organized with an entry per day per friend on all the days where they had activity. If your friends have an avatar you will see their photo there and a list of all the games they played that day.
If you click this part of the screen you can give feedback to your friend on his performance.
At the top you can see the thumb up icon. If you want to give feedback to your friends on his scores, you can hit this icon. This will open up a list of icons and you can choose which one is the right one for you.
Once you comment or select to “like” your friend, he will be notified by the Bowling by Raketten app
