How do you choose to not make a shot like that? Every bowler wants to get a strike, and if you fail to get that strike you're not choosing what setup you end up

How do you choose to not make a shot like that? Every bowler wants to get a strike, and if you fail to get that strike you're not choosing what setup you end up with. If you could choose, you would have gotten that strike. Edit: Or are you trying to say they aren't going for the conversion, just for knocking down as many pins as they can, when they get there? Does the article's data include whether the bowler was attempting the conversion? My expectation is no, the data covers all frames that include that split, without excluding ones where the bowler has indicated that they're not attempting the conversion.