Baker Scoring

BowlSheet® was the first iOS bowling app to support Baker scoring. It has been scoring Baker games since 2010.

What Baker Format Is

In a Baker game, five bowlers share one game. Each bowler owns two frames: bowler 1 throws frames 1 and 6, bowler 2 throws frames 2 and 7, and so on through bowler 5, who throws frames 5 and 10 — including any bonus balls in the tenth. One score, one team.

It is the standard team format in high school and collegiate competition, and it punishes sloppy bookkeeping. Tracking who owns which frame on paper is error-prone, especially across a five-game match. BowlSheet handles it for you.

How Baker Scoring Works in BowlSheet

Pick Baker as the game type and BowlSheet assigns the rotation automatically: bowlers 1–5 own frames 1–5, then repeat for frames 6–10. No manual tracking, no arguing over whose frame it was.

• Automatic frame ownership — the lineup order determines who throws each frame, all the way through the tenth.
• Change the lineup before every game — reorder your five before each team game in a series, the way real Baker matches are coached.
• Match play — track your opponent’s score alongside your own, so head-to-head Baker matches read like the real thing.
• Full pin-by-pin detail — every ball in a Baker game gets the same ball-by-ball, pin-by-pin scoring as any other BowlSheet game, with splits and common leaves detected and named automatically.

Baker games live alongside your singles and team games, and everything you record feeds the app’s filterable statistics.

Coming in BowlSheet Community

The next generation, BowlSheet Community, takes Baker competition further. Coming soon:

• Mid-game substitutions — swap a bowler mid-game with each bowler’s partial-game contribution attributed correctly in their stats.
• Rolloffs — score rolloff games and keep them separate from regular event games.
• Baker role stats — per-frame-position analytics, so coaches can see which bowler belongs in which slot.

Community is in closed beta with pilot teams now. Get early access.

Score Your Next Baker Match

BowlSheet is on the App Store today for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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