First instinct is that you need a heavy oil ball drilled exclusively for that, or resurface the one that you might already have.
I personally bowl best on scorched lanes, or really broken down patterns. I think I'm a tweener, but much closer to a stroker than a cranker. I throw my strike ball in the high 17 mph range.
Three boards of hook is better than none. If you could point, from the corner, rather successfully, why didn't you use the ball that would give you that little bit of hook to increase your drive potential. Also, since bowling in the PBAX League this summer, I realized that the carry is better if your mark is somewhere around 12 and your break point is around 15 if the lanes are flooded. (See Shark Pattern)
I've also noticed that a wood house is not going to give you as sharp a backend reaction as a standard synthetic house. I know it gets frustrating not being able to strike, then it affecting your spare game. The 3/4" boards would be interesting to see in person, but some simple math should have been able to supply you with where to stand to adjust to that. 1 board extra for every 4 boards moved. 6 1/4 boards vs 5 boards between the arrows.
I had the same kind of issue bowling in the SBA tournament last year. The reason that my lanes were flooded was because they didn't clean the backends when they laid the new condition on the lanes before my squad. Watching the ball hop was an interesting thing to see. ~35 oil ->1 foot clean backend at the end of the pattern where the machine stopped -> 60 games of tournament carrydown. I scraped out a 540 with a few missed spares. Having two breakpoints was a not so easy task. That's why I like to bowl the first squad of the day if I can. I get an unpolluted lane condition.
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