How to Calculate the Overall Average in Bowling

In bowling, the highest score you can get is a 300. You want to get the highest score possible. In order to find how you are performing in bowling, you will often use an average. Your bowling average is a good measure of how good you are, because it takes into account all the games you bowl during a season or during a night. This helps smooth out bad games and good games that are just flukes to your actual performance.

Instructions

    • 1

      Add together the total scores from all your games. For example, assume one night you bowl a 150, 165 and a 173.

    • 2

      Count the total number of games you bowled. In the example, it is three games.

    • 3

      Divide your total score by the number of games you bowled. In the example, 488 divided by three games is a bowling average of 162.66.