Oh yeah I don’t doubt the value of having the variations (except in some cases where leela knows it’s behind and looks at terrible variations), just I was thinking regarding another topic:
It would seem at the moment there’s an issue to use the ai to decide correspondence handicap games that timeout if they’re estimated to be closer in score than the komi at least. If the win rate is based on non-existent komi though it might even be hard to use the ai at all to decide correspondence games in the case of a serial timeout. (I know this is probably minor given the lack of handicap games anyway.)
I might link this to that thread if it’s worth having there.