Sitting in the National Bowling Stadium bleachers watching the live ESPN broadcast of the Rolltech PBA World Championship, I had an idea my PBA Player of the Year vote was decided when Gary Faulkner Jr. held off a determined rally by Ryan Ciminelli in the semifinal match. But it was impossible to be 100 percent certain at the time — I was focused on covering that tournament that night and hadn’t looked at the stats in detail. As it turns out, if Ciminelli’s superb...