Actually, "burning up" is one of the most over used terms in bowling today. Studies have shown that it's not that a dull ball that hooks in game 1 starts to "burn up" game 2, it has more to do with the rough finish being worn down to a higher Ra value. Two different things. Take two of the same ball, surfaced the exact same, same drilling, and you were to take the freshly sanded ball, and throw it on top of the ball you started with, the fresh surfaced ball #2 will hook. It's the change of the cover stock from usage. Scan a freshly surfaced ball, and re-scan after 10 mins of practice plus a game and a half of bowling, and you will see a difference in texture profile.
The reason people throwing less surface on their balls don't see as much "burn off", is because the ball isn't changing finished grits as rapidly; combined with the fact they probably have a higher rev rate and don't need as much surface to get the ball to slow down and hook.
Leave both a sanded ball and a polished ball untouched long enough (40-50 games depending on lane surface being bowled on and the oil being used and rev rate), the two differently finished balls will end up having similar texture profiles when scanned for surface roughness.
And once again, rev rate has more to do with bowlers having to move their feet than does oil depletion.
http://www.kegel.net/wpa/2016/3/14/breakdown-and-carrydown-by-the-numbersA bowler with less rev rate is going to "see carrydown" quicker than a bowler with a high rev rate. Usually, people using big hooking balls generally have less hand because they need the help of the weight block and cover to get the ball to slow down and hook.
So, Less rev rate combined with more surface texture on the ball to start that is smoothing out with every shot equals a bowler "seeing" carrydown. It has nothing to do with "burning up". "Burning up" is something that high rev rate players see when trying to move to deeper angles, and a ball had already satisfied it's roll and slowed down, thus not making it back to the pocket. It's not the low rev house bowler who's ball stopped hooking halfway through game 2.
I'm not debating that resin balls don't remove oil. But the issue is more to do with track flare, then cover stock. You can take the strongest oil soaking cover made by man, put it with a pancake weight block that is rolling over the same part of the ball every rotation down the lane, and it won't remove as much oil as a less aggressive mild reactive cover drilled strong that flares 7" because it is hitting fresh surface on the ball every rotation. And once again, rev rate becomes the primary factor in getting a ball to flare 7".
http://www.kegel.net/wpa/breakdown-and-carrydown-then-and-nowConditions with a ton more oil, like today, will have a greater impact from "carrydown" from a non-flaring urethane ball, then if it were very light volumes of oil like yester-year. Plastic spare balls going through the middle for spares also pushes oil down the lane. You can believe it or not, but that's reality.
