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I think it's 9 blot numbers after 6/1 5/1 (don't forget 4-2) and 13 blot numbers after 5/off 5/1.
I might have played 6/1 5/1 over the board, but I can see 5/off 5/1 being better. This structure after 6/1 5/1 where you have 2 on the 6 and 3 on the 5 and then a dearth of spares on the lower points tends not to be particularly safe down the line, because you clear the 6 and then you're often left with a shotty structure.
Still, I'm pretty sure 6/1 5/1 is long-term safer than 5/off 5/1, which has its own mess of problems, but 5/off 5/1, when it gets hit, will have more checkers off and it wins more gammons when not hit. So that could make up for a bit of extra risk.
Sounds right, thank you! The gammons are certainly higher, 40 vs 36. The wins are the same. I think it is 9 shots vs 12 shots, but I might be missing something.
A: 65 64 63 62 53 66 55 = 12 shots
B: 64 54 42 66 55 44 - 9 shots