See below for why I think the claims made are so highly inflated coming from the clones...
The bow effect is most interesting IMHO, because it shows how a linear measure fails. Your count, and any other type of overall effect of removal, drops in overall efficiency with deeper depletion. What analysis of the bow effect does---once you filter out the grouping of true count errors that the clones will never admit to-- is show that this drop in efficiency, using a linear measure, has a shape.
What can be done is not so much get more overall edge--because what you gain in the middle TC ranges is given up at the higher end of your spread--but you can give a shape to how your linear measure starts to fail.
Your count misses the bowing to about the same degree that its efficiency drops. But knowing something about the bias will let you restore some of that lost efficiency, and probably for both playing efficiency and betting efficiency.
Stay tuned. It is not much extra money involved. But it does seem that some interesting theoretical information can be gained.
But not by leaving errors in how you group together true counts in the "filler.".
