Stands — HighTine

AM / PM — real averages, not a label

AM checks your stand's actual computed score for every hour from 5am to 9am. PM checks 4pm to 8pm. Each hour is scored independently from that hour's own real forecast, then the window average is what ranks the list — not one lucky hour dressed up as a badge.

Wind — judged, never averaged

Wind works differently on purpose. It never gets folded into an average — it's a straight geometric comparison of the current or forecast wind direction against the direction(s) you've told the app work at that stand, read out in plain language: Perfect, Favorable, Workable, Crosswind, Bad Wind, or Wrong Wind. A stand having a great day everywhere else doesn't quietly average away a busted wind. The app just says the wind's wrong.

Wind Sensitivity — your call, per stand

Every stand carries a Wind Sensitivity setting — Wind is Critical, Somewhat Matters, or Not a Factor — that scales how hard wind alignment moves that stand's score, without ever touching the honest wind label itself. Flag a CRP-edge stand as wind-critical and it swings hard on a bad reading; mark a sheltered timber bench as not-a-factor and it barely reacts to the same wind.

Stand Insight — where it all surfaces

AM / PM / Wind rank badges, a live "right now" score for the current hour, and the single best hour inside your current window — all in one card, per stand.

Stand Insight detail view with AM/PM/Wind badges and live score

How a stand's score actually gets built

It's deliberately additive — no multipliers, no hidden rescaling — so the breakdown on screen always adds up to exactly the number you see. Three pieces:

Movement conditions — live and forecast weather (pressure trend, wind speed, temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, moon illumination, snow depth), weighted differently depending on your stand's terrain type. A CRP-edge stand reacts hard to wind speed; a sheltered-bench stand barely notices it.

Peak windows — the geometric wind comparison above, scaled by your Wind Sensitivity setting, plus a real "bust penalty" when the wind is badly wrong — one of the largest single swings in the whole model — and a time-of-day activity spike tuned to your stand's specific terrain type.

Your stand — the terrain analysis for that spot blended with season and rut timing, plus a real penalty pulled from your own logged hunt history there: hunting it in the last day costs real points, stepping back down over the days that follow and clearing by day five, with an extra hit if you've leaned on it three or more times in a week.

The honest pitch: this isn't a generic property score copy-pasted across every stand. It's built from that stand's real terrain, the live weather for that exact hour, your own saved wind preferences and sensitivity dial, and your own hunting-pressure history on it.

Stand hourly breakdown chart showing the 3-part additive sum

password-gated · not real security, just friction

The real additive formula — every weight, threshold, and step-function behind a stand's score.

Wrong password. Hint: it's not meant to stop you.

The formula FinalScore = movementConditions + peakWindows + yourStand // clamped to [-100, 250] as a safety rail only — doesn't engage under realistic inputs // the three on-screen sections sum to exactly this number, every time

AM / PM windows AM hours = [5, 6, 7, 8, 9] PM hours = [16, 17, 18, 19, 20] // 4pm-8pm window_score = average(hour_score for each hour with real data)

Wind — label thresholds and sensitivity multipliers Alignment Label \geq 0.88 (\leq22° off) Perfect \geq 0.75 (\leq45° off) Favorable \geq 0.62 (\leq67° off) Workable \geq 0.38 (\leq112° off) Crosswind \geq 0.12 (\leq157° off) Bad Wind below that Wrong Wind Wind Sensitivity multiplier: "Wind is Critical" \to 1.00\times (default) "Somewhat Matters" \to 0.55\times "Not a Factor" \to 0.15\times The multiplier scales only the point swing from wind — it never changes the plain-language label itself, so the badge always tells the truth about the wind even on a stand you've dialed down to "Not a Factor."

Alignment	Label
≥ 0.88 (≤22° off)	Perfect
≥ 0.75 (≤45° off)	Favorable
≥ 0.62 (≤67° off)	Workable
≥ 0.38 (≤112° off)	Crosswind
≥ 0.12 (≤157° off)	Bad Wind
below that	Wrong Wind

Movement conditions — terrain-type weighting example Every stand subtype carries its own [pressure, wind, temp, precip] weight vector on top of the same base weather formula: Subtype Pressure Wind Temp Precip CRP / field-corner / ag-edge 1.2 2.0 1.5 1.4 Sheltered bench / conifer edge 1.5 0.2 0.5 0.7 That's a 10\times spread on the wind-speed term alone between an exposed field-edge stand and a wind-sheltered bench — the same gust means almost nothing at one and swings the other hard.

Subtype	Pressure	Wind	Temp	Precip
CRP / field-corner / ag-edge	1.2	2.0	1.5	1.4
Sheltered bench / conifer edge	1.5	0.2	0.5	0.7

Peak windows — wind alignment, bust penalty, perfect bonus windScale = clip(windSpeedMph / 12.0, 0.65, 1.5) graded = (alignment - 0.5) \cdot subtypeRange \cdot windScale // range is 16-32 by subtype bust = alignment < 0.15 ? -(0.15 - alignment) \cdot 100.0 : 0 perfect = alignment > 0.85 ? (alignment - 0.85) \cdot 50.0 : 0 peakWindows = (graded + bust + perfect) \cdot sensitivityMultiplier Straight from the engine's own comment: "This is deliberately one of the largest single swings anywhere in the model — bad wind doesn't just subtract points, it can erase a day that was otherwise perfect on paper." Worst case, the combined swing runs in the -40 to -60+ point range before the sensitivity multiplier is even applied.

Your stand — hunt-pressure penalty This is a stepped tier, not a smooth decay curve: hours since last hunt < 24 \to -16 hours since last hunt < 48 \to -10 hours since last hunt < 72 \to -6 hours since last hunt < 120 \to -3 // 120h = 5 days hours since last hunt \geq 120 \to 0 if hunted 3+ times in the last 7 days: -5 additional