such as the layer of oil applied to bowling lanes. These oil patterns—intended to reduce friction and guide the ball—vary greatly in shape and thickness across tournaments, influencing how the ...

laid down in every bowling alley on earth by computerised machines? Or that those patterns are then disrupted and complicated by every ball that rolls over them? Thus, the requirements for each ...

They based their simulations on the bowling style of a hypothetical “average” bowler, releasing the ball at 17.9 mph at ... from spin and friction to oil patterns on the boards were analysed ...