We scored like crazy on badger. Wolf though was a terrifying.

A lot depends on the house.  Bowled on Badger in two different anvil lane houses about the same age.  One had a 15 year old Ion machine.  Not sure what the other was using, but it was newer.  In the latter house we bowled our roll off on Badger.  It played pretty good.  Several of us were 200+ on it.  In the house with the old Ion machine it was almost unplayable.  Nobody averaged 185.  The track never opened up inside 10.  Only shot to the pocket was a jam shot up 8 board for me.  I averaged 6 pocket hit splits over 4 games every night. 

The house that scored really bad on the Badger has the old Ion machine, that is not doing a good job stripping.  Even though Badger is a 52 foot pattern, most of it is buff out.  When the machine doesn't strip, you get a lot more carrydown from 40 feet on.  Saw similar issues with a 35 foot pattern in that house that had way more hold area than there should have been.  Got the opposite effect on the short pattern where the carrydown really set a point shot.  I averaged almost 220 on the 35 foot pattern for 12 games, less than 185 on the Badger.