Today's Action
Create Account Login

Bowling League Rules

Bowling RULES

Main Rule Set = United States Bowling Congress

We follow USBC rules, with some adaptions. This is the need to know;

(last update 2/13/24)


LI-Kick Adaptions;

Team Size: A ‘full team’ can have 4-6 bowlers. There are no gender rules for bowling.  

Games: Teams bowl 2 games per night. All team members bowl both games.  

Scoring: There are 4 points up for grabs each game. The Top 3 scores and the average of those scores determine which team is awarded points. 1 point is awarded for each ‘better correlating score’ and a 4th point is awarded for the better ‘top 3 average’. Scores outside the top 3 neither help or hurt your team.   

Scoring Example: Team A has 6 bowlers who throw a 200, 180, 130, 115, 100, and 90. Team B has 4 bowlers who throw a 190, 160, 145 and 120. Only the top 3 scores from each game count so the scores of 115, 100 and 90 from team A, as well as the 120 from team B are cut. Team A receives 1 point because 200 defeats 190. Team A receives a 2nd point because 180 defeats 160. Team B receives 1 point because 145 defeats 130. Team A receives a third point because their top 3 average of 170 defeats team B’s top 3 average of 165. Therefore Team A wins the match 3 to 1.  

League Standings: Teams are ranked in the standings by points earned. Top-3 average is the tie-breaker.   

Handicaps: Handicaps are not used in LI-Kick

Playoff Rule Breaker; Regular season games can end in a tie. Playoff games will go to a tie-breaker round in the event tie.

  • Each team uses 3 players in the tie-breark round. The players with the top 3 games scores will participate.
  • In the tiebreaker round a strike is worth 11, a spare is with 10 and any open frame is equal to it’s pinfall.
  • Scoring example; Bowler 1 throws a strike, bowler 2 throws a spare, bowler 3 throws a 7. That team scores 28 of the maximum 33 points.
  • The 3 bowlers on each team bowl an additional frame. The team with the higher combined score in that 1 additional frame wins the tie breaker
  • In the event of tie in the tie-breaker, teams will continue to bowl additional unattached frames in this fashion until there is a winner.