Brush Bowls Club Competitions

Each year Brush Bowls Club holds the following internal competitions:

Bowling members are encouraged to enter as many competitions as possible.  Although there can be only one winner and half of the entrants are knocked out at each round, the competitions are more exciting with more entrants and, who knows, on the day there may be some upsets that see better players beaten by an “underdog”.

2 Wood Pairs & 4 Wood Pairs : Pairings are organised at semi-random.  The Competition Secretary creates a list of 50% of the entrants who he considers are more experienced bowlers and then these are drawn out of a hat with one of the remaining 50% of bowlers – the objective is to pair a more experienced bowler with a newer, less experienced bowler.

In each competition, the matches are drawn at random.

The following competition was established in 2026 to give new bowlers a forum for playing against similarly experienced bowlers:

Brush Bowls Club Competition Winners 2025

Mens Championship                       Dave Bettany
Ladies Championship                     Mel Edge
Maiden Singles                                 Dave Bettany
Handicap Singles                             Dave Bettany
2 Wood Singles                                Andy Reynolds
4 Wood Pairs                                    Andy Reynolds/Graham Waters
2 Wood Pairs                                    Dave Bettany/Ian Day

Congratulations to all of the winners and good luck to everyone in 2026.

How Do Bowling Members Compare Against Each Other On The Green?

You might have thoughts on who the best bowlers are in the Club?  But how does everyone else compare?

Using advanced statistical methodology known as Bayesian network meta-analysis results from the club competitions singles matches have been analysed to estimate the proportion of times that every bowler is expected to win singles matches against every other bowler.  It is not necessary that bowlers have played against each other in head-to-head matches.  The method borrows information  from indirect estimates.

Details of the data included in the analysiss the statistical models used and the results can be found here.