NSL Official Rules

These rules apply to all National Senior League regular season matches.

Each team will belong to a conference of 8 total teams.

Each team will bowl 1 match per week during the regular season against a team from their conference.

• A match consists of 2 games.
• Each game is bowled by 4 players.
• Individual player totals will be combined to get the team score for that game.

A team will consist of a minimum of 4 bowlers.

• Any combination of roster players may bowl in each game.

If a community has multiple teams, a player may be on more than one team but must bowl separate games on each team.

Scoring – A match is worth a total of 5 NSL Points as described below.

• Each game is worth 2 NSL Points to the winning team.
• Tie games are worth 1 NSL point to each team.
• 1 point will be awarded to the team with the highest point total for both games.

If 4 players are not available to bowl a game, missing player(s) score will be that player average score up to that point

A team must select the 4 bowlers to bowl the game prior to bowling. (Do not just take the 4 highest scores from all team members after all have bowled)

ALL SCORING RESULTS ARE TO BE POSTED BY COACHES TO WEBSITE BY 9PM EASTERN TIME EACH THURSDAY.

Please use the official NSL score sheet to keep track of game/match results. This can be found under Resources button on league web page.

The regular season will consist of 7 weeks of conference play followed by up to 3 weeks of playoffs.

Should a team drop out of competition at any point in the season, scores and results leading up to that point will still count in the standings.

• Teams may bowl their match any time between Monday and Thursday.

Results must be posted to the website by 9pm EST each Thursday of the regular season.

ALL TEAMS PLEASE NOTE

• If a coach has problems posting results to the website they may e- mail dennis@nslgames.com the results.
• The NSL Website will not allow teams to post scores after the 9pm EST Thursday.