There's a pattern to how PBA Experience oil patterns play. The pattern is that there is no exact pattern.
The first rule of playing the PBA Experience patterns is that there are no rules. There's not one specific way to play any of the five patterns. The suggestions in United States Bowling Congress Sport Bowling handouts, fliers and videos on bowl.com are based on previous experience and success from professional bowlers.

Bowlers from Florida, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin captured United States Bowling Congress Sport Bowling national high average honors for the 2006-07 season, including Team USA's Ashly Galante (l.) who won her third straight award. The awards come during what was a banner year for the USBC Sport Bowling program. Final statistics show the number of Sport Bowling members rose 120 percent over the previous season, with 27,921 competing in 2006-07 compared with 12,689 in 2005-06.

The USBC Sport Bowling program enjoyed explosive growth across the board this past season, due largely to the remarkable popularity of PBA Experience leagues which allow Sport members to compete on the same lane oil patterns as professional bowlers. Final statistics for the 2006-07 season show impressive participation increases for bowlers, leagues and centers hosting Sport Bowling competition.

"He has the whole lane. I am splitting boards out there. The crankers have the advantage."
Virtually every bowler can easily identify the above phrases as something they may have said or something that was directed to them while they were bowling. Recent USBC research compared a Sport Bowling oil pattern to a standard house pattern for these styles of bowlers (stroker, tweener, cranker.)