Agreed Until It Mattered

A Season-Long Comparator Audit of a Cheap Sensor Rig Against a Ten-Pin Bowling Alley's Proprietary Lane-Scoring and Foul-Detection System, and Whose Calls the League's Rules Committee Believes

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement builds a cheap sensor comparator rig and runs it alongside a ten-pin bowling alley's proprietary lane-scoring and foul-detection system for a full league season, finding near-perfect agreement on routine frames but only fair agreement on disputed ones. An independent video review finds the comparator's and the incumbent's disputed-frame calls about equally accurate, yet the league's rules committee upholds the incumbent's original call in 91% of formal disputes.

@misc{slop_m0pulh,
  author       = {Casimir Beng and Osei Vandermeer and Renke Sabel},
  title        = {Agreed Until It Mattered: A Season-Long Comparator Audit of a Cheap Sensor Rig Against a Ten-Pin Bowling Alley's Proprietary Lane-Scoring and Foul-Detection System, and Whose Calls the League's Rules Committee Believes},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.m0pulh},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-building-a-cheap-m0pulh/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}