I recently purchased a TF LE and the balls spend a lot of time in the pops, to the point of eating up my ball restart time as I've found out the hard way. It accumulates points fast, but not sure that's necessarily a good thing. On the other hand, I have a TOTAN and some games I don't even hit the pops. It takes an unusual left orbit shot to even enter the pops on TOTAN. So for my experience: