Ok, so I figured out how to play this "fill" pattern. Though I'm curious if it's typical to not have really any back end on said pattern. I couldn't get any skid snap out of my ball, so I had to play almost a tweener style. Plus accuracy was a must. It was either hit or miss. When I hit my target it was solid in the pocket, though I even left some 7-10 pocket splits. Have any of you dealt with this before? I like the challenge, but it was very hard to keep up with lol.

Why don't you explain what you mean by Fill Pattern. I looked it up on PBA. and find nothing. No other explanations were found elsewhere either.

Well what I got from the guy working at the desk... they don't strip down the lanes, just have the machine fill the oil on the lanes. So I just took it as a "fill pattern". THS, that wasn't stripped just had oil added to it. No telling what kind of carry down was a factor or anything. Pretty much had to play 11-9 down and in... If I hit 11 at the wrong angle though it was going through the nose or into Brooklyn.

OK, over Summer, some houses take shortcuts by not stripping the old, and not adhering to a regular oil schedule. This is common because of the lighter use that lanes receive.

An over application of oil without stripping will yield an erratic play and read. The back ends will vary each time they do it, and it will not be consistent.

If you found a favorable line, consider yourself fortunate. It's often not fun to bowl this way.

Its not that hard to bowl on that. The one center I bowl league in, that's what they often do, all year long. I think they strip and oil in the morning, then just do a "fill in" the length of the pattern. This house yields honor score after honor score, usually 20+ a month during the fall/winter season, and is the one that runs two shifts Monday-Thursday. I normally run up the 5 board, but some swing the lane, some play the Track.