I'm interested in picking this up, but I want to make sure I get what I'm hoping I get.  It says it's preloaded with a bunch of Ebonite Int balls, and that more are available for downloads, but what about balls that aren't Ebonite brands?  Can you plug in numbers and still have it spit you something out?  I'd say that core shape is important for post drilling numbers and reaction, and if they don't have the specific ball loaded in, I don't know how much the information would be worth.  And if Ebonite brands are all it's good for, it would be pretty worthless to me.  Anybody have any experience with it that can break it down for me? 

Download the free trial of bp software. It is very useful for trying things and visually confirming things you have read online.

Hopefully soon someone will develop something along the lines of BP and include every manufacturer and ball made so choosing right equipment is better. But then again, bowlers or pro shops will have to know house shots, amt of oil, lane surface, length of oil, type of oil. An independent entity will come up with something if the demand is there and price is right.

BP is the best out there from what i have seen, yes it is only EBI products
however, the virtual drilling you do to this ball will run a simulated "100 shots" and give you a strike percentage
also you input lane surface and pattern type.
just by tweaking the angle of a weight hole will give you different results
I dont know why you would drill a ball without this if its available to you

pretty awesome and I believe there is a free trial version of it out there
try this link
http://powerhousebowling.com/blueprint/demo

It isn't worthless if you try the trial version just to see all the actual affects of drilling a ball. How hole depth of fingers, thunb holes, and x-holes affect the numbers. Not to mention different x-hole locations besides just the gradient line locations. Also the surface changes you can apply for different results.

I made and saved several different graphs and other layout and x-hole spots to have for future reference. Seeing these holes affect the shift of the high rg and low rg axis along with flare was very interesting.

The name on the ball means nothing.  Seeing the results on symmetric and asymmetric cores was great. I'd pay a little money for a permanent version of the trial software just for the usefulness of it.

Seeing as EBI sells 50% of the bowling balls in the world.
As a business, why would you offer the competitors information on something you have spent $$ on the develop (I imagine quite a bit of $$ as well)

If you can take the software, use it properly based on your specs and pick a layout on a particular piece of equipment that has a 95% percent or higher simulated strike ratio.
why would you want to use something else?
I would bet that is what the folks who designed and paid for this technology were thinking.

Marketing 101, I have something appealing that you don't, therefore I have an advantage
It doesn't actually mean you will buy from me, but it will mean you will take a look and see what I can offer.
That's half the battle right there with basic consumerism

I didn't say it was worthless, just worthless to me for the purpose I wanted to use it for.  Yeah, it's fun to play with, but we just don't have enough use for it to justify the cost, and once you get the concept of how it all works, you can get really close to what you're after.  I hadn't realized it was an Ebonite exclusive software, I knew they'd developed it, but I didn't know that they hadn't "worked a deal" with the other companies to make it all inclusive.  We don't drill a lot of Ebonite brands, so the return isn't worth the expense for us. 

But I know how this is going to work too, if I say we don't need to get that specific or technical, then I get comments, "You're doing your customers a disservice if you aren't giving them the best of what's out there or putting your full knowledge and effort into it," and if I get really anal and technical about it, then I get, "You know it really doesn't matter that much right?  You won't notice the small differences on a house shot anyway, you're into the law of diminishing returns."  I just wanted information on the software, not an ethics debate.