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Creating a ‘Best Bowlers of All Time’ list isn’t easy. There have been thousands of outstanding players in the history of the game. There are dozens of factors and criteria that can be used to determine a player’s quality, such as career earnings, annual earnings, tournaments won, tournaments placed, career average, tournaments cashed relative to tournaments bowled, and on, and on…

Scroll to the bottom of this post for a look at the best bowlers of the last 5 years.

Those are just the objective factors. There is a lot to take into account in a list like this. That’s why, for the ‘All Time’ list, we’re borrowing straight from the PBA’s ’50 Greatest Players in PBA History’. This list is from the 2008-09 season, so certain stats for current players have changed, but the overall structure of this list will likely stand for a long time.

Note: This list only takes into account PBA players and doesn’t include players like Andy Varipapa who was around before the PBA.

• Key:
• (A) – Active on the PBA Tour or PBA 50 Tour
• (P) – Passed Away
• (R) – Retired

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Best Bowlers of All Time

Source: 50 Greatest Players in PBA History

We think the PBA did a great job with this list. Here’s the tricky part, though: how do you incorporate some of the best bowlers of today with the best bowers of the ever-growing past? For example, in the 5 years since this list has been published, Mika Koivuniemi has had incredible success, including a 1st place Tournament of Champions finish, a 2nd place U.S. Open finish, and a handful of other titles. It would be reasonable, then, to bump Mika up on that list were it current.

You also need to take into account how much the game has changed. Was it tougher back when bowling balls were hard rubber and transitions on the lane were by a quarter of a board? Or is it tougher now with the hundreds of bowling ball coverstock/core combinations, varying oil patterns, and lane transitions every half game? We don’t know. That’s not for us to decide.

For this list, we’re only looking at objective factors and we’re only looking at the past 5 years (2009-present).

Note: Averages are calculated per season, not by total games, and should not be cited as official averages (but they should be pretty close!). Because there is no definitive way to rank the players, this is our subjective order. You can sort the table by clicking on the column titles.

Best Bowlers of the Last 5 Years

Do you agree with this list? Did we leave anybody off? Let us know down below – we’ll fix the list if your argument is convincing enough.