Looking forward to this.

Bullet Shielding is an exploitable strategy, like all other crush-the-weak strategies.

It will probably increase APS score and decrease PL score.

Well, from here my PL can only go down :-p I think I might be able to work it so that it doesn't actually lose me points against anybody, even those the bullet shielding doesn't work against, by dodging any bullet that the shield doesn't catch before a hard decision is made. We'll see.