I've had this discussion before...but here we go again.

Yes, every ball plunged has the potential to be your best ball ever. So?

If you pushed the start button to restart your game after ball 1 because it was crappy, and that next ball plunged was going to be your best ball ever....guess what? Instead of being your best ball ever being on ball 2, it will be your best ball ever on ball 1!

So it's not really a reason to not start a game over.

Absolutely.

I don't always start over if I have a crappy first ball. It just depends. Sometimes I want to play like I'm in a tournament. No do overs there! So you have to fight back the best that you can.

Starting over after a crappy first ball can lead to playing lazy, because you tell yourself "if I have a crappy first ball, I'll just start over".

I understand what you are saying, but that has nothing to do with the point about "the next ball plunged could be your best ball ever" as being a valid argument to not start a game over.

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If nothing else, some good came out of this thread because people learned something new!

Really? And that's without drains from the pops??