Pugilistic Animus; been there; got the T-Shirt but the 'exact science' bit is a tad over the top.
I too have seen the very end of many runways; the fact still remains that at MAUW and a couple of knots prior to V1 and you call 'STOP'... you're into the stopway; no argument there I trust!
By the way, where do the 'big bucks' appear in the equation?