Michael was a member of the 1st place team Omaha Hambone.

This season he has been the Most Valuable Bowler 0 times and earned 1 #1 Power Ranked bowler and 2 #1 Head-to-Head bowler nods(s).

his latest scores put him in the # position for the week. Overall, he is cumulatively the # Power Ranked bowler in the league this season out of a field of 24 bowlers.

Box scores for Spring 2017

	Opponent	Lanes	G1	G2	G3	Series	Hdcp.	Avg.
Week 1	Holy Sandbaggers,...	3&4	175	176	230	581	597	193
Week 2	Frankee's Uncles	7&8	172	160	164	496	512	179
Week 3	Terra Bowler	5&6	214	237	172	623	673	188
Week 4	Ebowla	1&2	239	161	172	572	600	189
Week 5	Suckeredusintoit	5&6	132	162	201	495	521	184
Week 6	Trump's Toupee	1&2	190	163	182	535	573	183
Week 7	FYWFK	7&8	192	198	235	625	665	187
Week 8	Holy Sandbaggers,...	1&2	188	191	168	547	578	186
Week 9	Holy Sandbaggers,...	5&6	213	236	168	617	650	188
Week 10	Frankee's Uncles	3&4	156	181	210	547	575	187
Week 11	Terra Bowler	1&2	152	167	221	540	571	187
Week 12	Ebowla	7&8	168	203	190	561	592	187
Week 13	Suckeredusintoit	1&2	177	182	232	591	622	187
Week 14	Trump's Toupee	7&8	152	161	187	500	531	186
Week 15	FYWFK	3&4	178	158	157	493	526	184
Week 16	Frankee's Uncles	1&2	267	175	235	677	715	187
Week 17	Frankee's Uncles	1&2	188	(0)	(0)	188	226	187
TOTALS			3153	2911	3124	9188	9727	187

Michael Mead made his league debut in the Spring 2016 season.

Having rolled 261 games over the course of 5 seasons in his GutterAlley career, Mead carries a lifetime average of 185.

To date, Michael's highest game shot in league was a 278 bowled in Game #3 during Week #11 of the Fall 2017 session and his highest series in league was the 696 he rolled in Week #15 during the Spring 2016 season.

He has been named the Most Valuable Bowler 3 time(s) and the runner-up 5 time(s).


Michael has bowled for:
  -Spring 2019: Pin Is King   (Avg: N/A)   (My profile for this team)
  -Spring 2019: Scoot's Raging Bone Spur   (Avg: N/A)   (My profile for this team)
  -Fall 2018: Bowling For Beers   (Avg: 198)   (My profile for this team)
  -Fall 2018: Gucci Lane   (Avg: 198)   (My profile for this team)
  -Spring 2018: Mary Janes Last Frame   (Avg: 189)   (My profile for this team)
  -Fall 2017: Mustache Cash Stash   (Avg: 193)   (My profile for this team)
  -Spring 2017: Omaha Hambone   (Avg: 187)   (My profile for this team)
  -Fall 2016: Stephen Hawking's Fight Club   (Avg: 180)   (My profile for this team)
  -Spring 2016: Bowies In Space   (Avg: 184)   (My profile for this team)


 

Michael has unlocked the following Spring 2017 achievements...

Your highest game during the season, increments of 25.	Your highest series during the season, increments of 25.	Named the #1 Power Ranked Bowler of any week.		Your current position in the league standings.
Rolled the High Game Scratch at least one week.	Rolled the High Series Scratch at least one week.	Rolled the High Game Handicap at least one week.	Rolled the High Series Handicap at least one week.	Had the Most Pins Over Average at least one week.
Victory! Your team swept another team.		Your team managed to win a game by a single pin.
Defeated the 1st place team 3-1 or 4-0!	Your team's longest winning streak this season.	Your team's longest losing streak this season.	Beat Don Glasscock's Fall 2007 scores!	Bested Sweep the Leg, Johnny's Fall 2009 scores!
Your name appears on a Top 25 list!
	Your team has 2+ of the top averages in the league!	Huge incremental drops in-between game scores!	Shot well over your average! Increments of 25.	Bowled below your average all 3 games in a single week.
		Named Defensive Bowler of the Season!
Selected People's Choice MVB!

A listing (from most current to furthest back) of any write-up posts in which Michael has been mentioned:

• Spring 2019 Recap (May 15th, 2019) -
  
  
• The Bowler Vortex (Jan 29th, 2019) - As the nation prepared to plunge into the harsh abyss of arctic doom, the second week of Spring 2019 saw five teams climb in the standings, while five teams slipped and one remained frozen in place. Two bowlers roll a new personal best game. Alison Radke landed this week's high game for the women with a 196, and women's high series was bagged by Monica Hufford with a 461. As for the men, Russell Bingham snagged this week's high game with a 236, and high series was earned by Seth Gunderson with a 620. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Fall 2018 Recap (Dec 13th, 2018) -
  
  
• Week 6 RoboRecap (Sep 25th, 2018) - The sixth week of Fall 2018 saw two teams climb in the standings, while one team slipped. One bowler set a new personal best series, and one rolled new personal high game. Monica Hufford picked up this week's high game (167) and series (446) for the women. As for the men, Russell Bingham snagged this week's high game with a 235, and high series was earned by Michael Mead with a 649. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• The Post-Bowling Blues (Sep 18th, 2018) - The fifth week of Fall 2018 saw two teams climb in the standings, while two teams slipped. One bowler set a new personal best series, and one rolled new personal high game. Monica Hufford picked up this week's high game (199) and series (522) for the women, while Aaron Barber earned this week's high game (257) and series (609) for the men. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Red Strikes First (Sep 4th, 2018) - The third week of Fall 2018 saw five teams climb in the standings, while five teams slipped. Freda Schroeder picked up this week's high game (206) and series (515) for the women, while Dennis Walling earned this week's high game (233) and series (622) for the men. And the Tournament of Champions divisions are now set, ready for one-on-one action to begin next week! Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Week 2 RoboRecap (Aug 30th, 2018) - The second week of Fall 2018 saw five teams climb in the standings, while three teams slipped. Freda Schroeder picked up this week's high game (169) and series (446) for the women, while Aaron Barber earned this week's high game (243) and series (634) for the men. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Off to a Malfunctiony Start (Aug 21st, 2018) - The Fall 2018 season is now underway, with ten teams entering the 16-week competition for the coveted, nonexistent championship trophy. Monica Hufford picked up this week's high game (181) and series (474) for the women, while Michael Mead earned this week's high game (237) and series (605) for the men. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Spring 2018 Recap (Jul 11th, 2018) -
  
  
• Witness!!! Cremates Another Season (May 8th, 2018) - The fifteenth week of Spring 2018 saw two teams climb in the standings, while one team slipped. One bowler set a new personal best series. Freda Schroeder picked up this week's high game (179) and series (526) for the women, while Kody Karnes earned this week's high game (277) and series (743) for the men. Meanwhile, Tournament of Champions is officially down to its final eight bowlers, who will face each other next week competing for two cash prizes! Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Last-Minute Leapfrog (May 1st, 2018) - The fourteenth week of Spring 2018 saw two teams climb in the standings, while two teams slipped. One bowler set a new personal best series. Freda Schroeder picked up this week's high game (190) and series (522) for the women. As for the men, Aaron Barber and Michael Mead both tied for this week's high game with a 276, and high series was earned by Michael Mead with a 688. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Smokin' The Competition (Apr 17th, 2018) - Until last week, Mary Janes Last Frame had been suffering. They hadn't had a winning week since February 13, so it was good to see their fortunes finally turn last week. However, more noteworthy, MJ is also the only team that is consistently tripping up Witness!!!. Their 7-1 record against Witness (the only team with a winning record against the first-place team) makes one wonder how the championship might turn out if Mary Jane can rally enough in these next three weeks to reach second place in time. Dreaming aside, let's now look at things that and more grounded in reality. For instance, this wee Angela Bradford picked up this week's high game (181) and series (488) for the women, while Russell Bingham earned this week's high game (264) and series (645) for the men. Ben Spencer rolled a new personal best series. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Witness Intimidation (Apr 3rd, 2018) - The tenth week of Spring 2018 saw one team climb in the standings, while one team slipped, and one bowler set a new personal best series. Angela Bradford picked up this week's high game (169) and series (462) for the women. As for the men, Kody Karnes and Nick Kinney both tied for this week's high game with a 245, and high series was earned by Kody Karnes with a 678. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• It's Springtime! Why are we inside? (Mar 20th, 2018) - Upon closer observation of the actual lane oil patterns (left), it has been determined that only house balls will be allowed for the remainder of the season. In other news, a renowned scientist was brought in to study Mary Janes Last Frame's current slump, a birthday announcement was missed by Scoot, and the computer overlords have changed the outcome of a series. To find out more, read on!
  
  
• The 700 Club Grows (Mar 6th, 2018) - For most of us, last night was a bit of an off night. Only a few of us hit our averages consistently, and many of us were well below our norms. The problem might have been that Matthew Taylor sucked up everybody's mojo so he could roll his first (and this season's first) 700+ series! While he as doing that, one team climbed in the standings and another team slipped. Emily Nicolet picked up this week's high game (147) and series (369) for the women, while Matthew Taylor unsurprisingly earned this week's high game (254) and series (707) for the men. Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Rolling Strong (Feb 6th, 2018) - Overall, this was the sixth hightest-rolliing week in league history. Two teams climb in the standings, while four teams slipped. Three bowlers set a new personal best series, and one rolled new personal high game. Angela Bradford picked up this week's high game (224) and series (592) for the women. As for the men, Michael Mead and Nick Kinney both tied for this week's high game with a 258, and high series was earned by Michael Mead with a 686. And the Tournament of Champions divisions are now set, ready for one-on-one action to begin next week! Read on for all the rest of the details!
  
  
• Fall 2017 Recap (Dec 13th, 2017) - 36 seasons of bowling are now behind us, and while we didn't set much in the way of records, having 10 teams brought us some new twists and turns and the largest pool of prize money (just shy of $2200) we have seen in quite some time!
  
  
• NOT NotContra (Nov 22nd, 2017) - With only one week remaining before the final position round, only three teams are mathematically still in the hunt for this season's championship. But a chant of "NOT NotContra" has been gaining momentum, that may or may not, have started on lanes 1 and 2 tonight.
  
  
• Beware Of Doug (Nov 14th, 2017) - There was some pretty freaking amazing rolling tonight. JoAnne Gordon rolled a new personal best series (405) and new high game (157). Michael Smith rolled a new personal best series (464) and tied his personal high game of 192. Ben Spencer broke his previous best game with a 199. Dennis Blake and Aubrey Moren were both on fire. Nick Kinney went insane with a 268. But nobody came close to what sub / 5th-man Doug Bonney did tonight.
  
  
• The Dirty Dozens (Nov 7th, 2017) - Twelve weeks of bowling are now in the books... the season is 3/4 over, and while one team has maintained a two-game lead for three weeks in a row, the top 5 spots in the standings remain too close for us to start predicting a winner just yet.
  
  
• Balloween (Oct 31st, 2017) - With tonight being Halloween, almost half the league was bewitched by demons and unable escape from the dark presence of Satan long enough to roll. For those of us who surrounded ourselves with sufficient garlic, silver, and holy water to avoid all of the evil, here is how tonight's games went.
  
  
• Finally, A Leader Emerges (Oct 24th, 2017) - Our position round has brought us a first in the Fall 2017 Seasoon. For the first time this season, a team has moved into first place that has more than just a 1-game lead!
  
  
• Swinging Back Around (Oct 18th, 2017) - [insert excerpt]
  
  
• Post Bowl Time (Oct 3rd, 2017) - Post-bowling scores are in, let's see how everything turned out!
  
  
• Who's On First? (Sep 27th, 2017) - While Mustache Cash Stash technically remains in first place by total pins, there are three teams tied for first place and a total of 5 teams that are within a game of first place. To have so many teams so close together at the top of the standings by week 6 is absolutely unprecedented in the history of our league. No, that's not hyperbole, I went through the week 6 standings of every past season and there has never been such a massive tie before by this point in the season.
  
  
• Cash Stash Lashes First With Panache (Sep 19th, 2017) - Being Lamewads, we here at Gutteralley can't claim to know what "Mustache Cash Stash" means or what the Google Image Search images that we found mean. But we do know enough to know that MCS = this week's first-place flavor-of-the-week.
  
  
• The Left Rises (For Real This Time) (Sep 12th, 2017) - The Alt-Left can now finally celebrate a legitimate claim to first place, while last week's 1st place team plummets all the way to 5th. Meanwhile, the Tournament of Champions also started up with its new 40-bowler format. Read on to see how it all shook out!
  
  
• Led By The Lefties (Sep 5th, 2017) - The two teams that feature right-handed bowlers who are bowling left-handed this season are leaving the rest of us in the dust. Have they uncovered a shocking new bowling secret???
  
  
• P.B.R.R.I.P. (Aug 29th, 2017) - Tonight our league received the worst news it has heard since the time the bar ran out of Sam Adams: PBR is being replaced with Boulevard Wheat at the bar because no one was drinking PBR. Tell that to the members of JG's Rusty Nuts, who average 5-6 pitchers of it a week. Their Tuesday nights are ruined. To find out how devastating this news was, read on...
  
  
• A Flood of Big Games Eclipses the Usual Week 1 Sandbagging (Aug 22nd, 2017) - The Fall 2017 season began with two teams' worth of bowlers absent, but that didn't stop some big games from causing some surprising upsets across the lanes.
  
  
• Spring 2017 Recap (May 19th, 2017) - 35 seasons of bowling are now behind us, and while this season may not have set a lot of records, it still has a few firsts and a lot of fun moments. And the surprise come-from-behind championship win by Omaha Hambone marks the first title win in quite some time that didn't come from ne of the long-time dynasties.
  
  
• Nate Silver Predicted 71.4% Likelihood Frankee's Uncles To Sweep Championship (May 10th, 2017) - In an effort to fully understand the situation facing the league going into tonight, we asked renowned statistician Nate Silver to take a look at the numbers. Noting that Omaha Hambone would need to win an unpresidented [sic] FIVE games in a row to win the championship, and that Omaha Hambone lost three games to Frankee's Uncles the last time they faced each other, the analysis revealed a 71.4% chance of the Uncles sweeping the Hambone, and a 99.973% chance of an Uncle championship overall. But, because November 8, 2016 exists, we all know exactly how this turned out...
  
  
• Getting Tighter (Mar 21st, 2017) - While the only position change in the standings tonight was a flip right in the very center of the lineup, the race for first place definitely became a lot more interesting as now only one game separates the top three teams. Who will have what it takes to come out ahead 7 weeks from now?
  
  
• Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire! (Feb 8th, 2017) - Tonight was a night of some pretty incredible games. With two veterans setting new personal high games, one setting a new personal high series, and people rolling well above their average in every one of our matchups, tonight was literally smoking
  
  
• 2016 Is A Wrap (Dec 21st, 2016) - With 34 seasons of bowling now behind us, the Fall 2016 season ended tonight as the 3rd best season in league history in terms of combined league average. Congratulations, everyone, on a great season!
  
  
• Flat-ner Is Coming (Nov 15th, 2016) - After years over suffering with blurry, miscolored, distorted scoreboards, we have credible information that by next week all of the scoreboards will be replaced with modern LCD flat=panel screens. It remains to be seen if or when this will be followed with high-def signal on the TVs, or working lanes. :)
  
  
• Look At Some Cute Things While Reading About Bowling (Nov 9th, 2016) - Scoot tried several times last night to get this write-up going, and even had various sets of images already loaded up to go with a theme for either way the election went. But he just couldn't bring himself to do it, and decided that what this nation needs now more than anything else is a bowling recap to help us heal. (Pictured left: Freda & Carl reconcile after some heated post-bowling election night bickering.)
  
  
• No Change (Nov 1st, 2016) - You'd think that with new bowlers continuing to be introduced 11 weeks into the season, that we'd see some changes in the standings. But nope, not this week, every team stayed exactly where they were!
  
  
• Pops Tops Pins (Oct 18th, 2016) - We begin the second half with no movement in the standings, at least not so far. However the matchup between the top two teams can't be reported until the alphabet team post-bowls on Monday.
  
  
• A Fractured League Enters Midseason (Oct 4th, 2016) - Our decimated league is now approaching the position round, and yet another injury takes yet another bowler out for the the season. Let's al wish the best for both Mark DeVoe and Kody Karnes on their individual roads to recovery! Meanwhile, nobody moved in the standings this week. Which only makes sense, considering how few league members can even walk.
  
  
• Don't Tread On Mead (Sep 20th, 2016) - Tonight was supposed to see our league finally as full as it's going to get this season, but like several other bowlers our new guy was infected with pestilence. However, Michael Mead showed up and inoculated us with a shot of kick-ass bowling that rocketed him to the top of the individual standings.
  
  
• Tournament Takes Off, Ray & Stevie Take It Slow (Sep 14th, 2016) - For the first time in league history, the team rolling against the Blind (Vacancy) Team not only didn't finish early, they were actually the last to finish. Meanwhile a late addition to the league (Ben Spencer) made for a complicated first week for the Tournament of Champions, and next week will be equally complicated when another new bowler -- likely the last new bowler this season -- will join us. And, finally, find out how the Carolina Reaper may come into play this season.
  
  
• Sweepage (Sep 6th, 2016) - All four matchups ended in sweeps tonight. Who did the sweeping and who wound up in the dustbin? The answers to these questions and more, in this week's episode of All My Gutterballs.
  
  
• Spring 2016 is History (May 24th, 2016) -
  
  
• Why Did Pocahontas Leave Her Hairpiece By The Campfire? (May 18th, 2016) - Tonight, on our last real night of bowling, we were joined by several new people that had never rolled in our league all season. It was the strangest thing, though... none of them were ever seen at the same time as Amber, Michelle S., Angela, Bob, Kody, or John Boren. Very! weird!
  
  
• Back to Back Clinchings (May 10th, 2016) - Not even the threats of Mexican wrestlers and their drug lord sidekicks could keep Fallop Ian from clinching the championship!
  
  
• A Royal Mess (Apr 5th, 2016) - You can always tell when the Royals are playing -- every team that has people related to Freda on it has absent bowlers. Bowling went quickly for most, though we can't report on everything until Fallop Ian post-bowls.
  
  
• Fear The Cheese (Mar 29th, 2016) - Why, oh why, do people continue to deny the power of The Cheese Stick Curse? Time and time again, the power of the molten mozzarella has been proven!
  
  
• Is the Championship In the Cards? (Mar 15th, 2016) - With the midseason position round coming up next week already, one team already seems destined for the championship. Fallop Ian began the season in first place and, despite a few challengers, has yet to relinquish that spot. Will the position round bring about an end to their streak? We'll find out next week.
  
  
• Almost No Change (Mar 8th, 2016) - Despite some major upsets tonight, the only change in the standings was a slight fliop between Split It and Bowlgasmic.
  
  
• Fallop Ian Squeezes Through a Small Lead (Feb 23rd, 2016) - Half of tonight's matchups saw underdogs come out on top, while the other half saw bullies beat up on their prey. Which way did each matchup go? Read on to find out.
  
  
• Theory of Relativity Proven (Feb 16th, 2016) - Just days after the announcement that gravity waves were detected, another portion of Einstein's Theory of Relativity was proven tonight when the matchup that involved Holy Sandbaggers, Batman! finished in less time than any other matchup! Granted, they shed half of their mass in order do do it, but it's all part of the famous equation.
  
  
• Let's Try This Again... It's Time to Bowl! (Jan 22nd, 2016) -
  
  
• Welcome to the Spring 2016 Season! (Jan 11th, 2016) -
  
  

Michael is currently featured on 19 Top 25 lists:

The good...

• Top 25 Best League Debuts (22nd)
• Top 25 Best Dream Series of All Time (8th)
• Top 25 Weekly High Game Scratch Leaders - By Percentage (9th)
• Top 25 Total Pins in a Single Season (10th)
• Top 25 People Who Have Been the Best Bowler in the League (9th)
• Top 25 Highest Lifetime Averages (12th)
• Top 25 Bowlers with the Most 600+ Series in a Single Season (14th)
• Top 25 Bowlers with the Most 600+ Series (17th)
• Top 25 Bowlers with the Most 200+ Games in a Single Season (11th)
• Top 25 Bowlers with the Most 200+ Games (22nd)
• Top 25 Bowlers Quickest to 100 Wins (7th)
• Top 25 Bowlers Truly Feelin' It (9th)
• Top 25 Bowlers by Win Percentage (8th)
• Top 25 Biggest Personal Best Series Jumps (17th)
• Top 25 Best Substitute Bowlers (9th)
• Top 25 Best Male Bowlers (18th)
• Top 25 Best League Debuts - Male (22nd)
• Top 25 Best Bowlers of All Time (19th)

The just for fun...

• Top 25 (Okay, 50) Largest Swings In-Between Games (13th)

In addition, teams of which Michael was a member are featured on 3 Top 25 lists:


The good...

• Top 25 Best Team Games (4-per)
• Omaha Hambone (Spring 2017) - (12th)
• Mary Janes Last Frame (Spring 2018) - (22nd)


• Top 25 Best Win Records of All Time
• Omaha Hambone (Spring 2017) - (24th)

The just for fun...

• Top 25 Games Settled by a Single Pin
• Omaha Hambone (Spring 2017) - (3rd)