[Ted Craven]

Mike,

Validator uses the sliding scale of shorter beaten lengths at all sprint fractions, and varied at each fraction for routes. Speculator uses 8.33 feet universally, for each fraction, at all distances.

RDSS (you guessed it), can be made to behave either way. The default (so far) is 8.33, but for final Validator compatibility testing, we'll set phasers to 'validate'. I can't say right now which I think is better, but I suspect on balance, it matters little. I've not been disappointed at all in the results produced by Speculator, but I am nothing if not open to empirical evidence.

I don't know about Energy, but the values you cite are not the ones used in Validator.

Hope that helps,

Ted