Not an expert on this, but wouldn't you have to double strip to remove most if not all of the memory on the lane from the previous squad. I thought if you only did one strip and then oiled, the lane retains some memory from the previous squad.
We re-oil between every squad in our city and state tournament (Granted its a house shot) and the late squad plays completely different than the early squad.
Isn't this in some ways why the PBA runs a double strip before laying oil? And I think even then, the lanes play different from squad to squad, day to day.
I'd probably say that re-oiling prior to every squad would give the appearance of a level playing field, but would not accomplish a true level playing field. I think creating a true level playing field is not in the cards for this game in general. Too many factors affect lane oil and laneplay that don't directly come from cleaning and oiling a lane.
But I'm no expert, most of what I know is from reading and studying and running a PBA Experience league for four years and explaining to people how each pair of lanes will always play a little differently than the next, how each pair of lanes holds some residue from the previous nights Neon Bowling crowd throwing plastic all night, and how the condition will never play like we see it on TV.
In my own personal experience just this year, our doubles pair I thought was pretty tough. The teams bowling prior to us were kind of playing all over the place. We knew it was going to be tough going in and it was. I shot 607 for doubles and we shot 1206 total. Our singles pair looked really nice. Other guys from our town shot 1290+ in doubles so we felt we would have a good chance to go big in singles. And we did, with the four of us on the pair averaging 240 a game. I racked a 752, my doubles partner shot 300/725, my other two friends shot 724 and 680 (lefty, went front 8 before leaving a nasty 9 pin). To complete the story, the guys who moved to our doubles pair shot 1100 combined.
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