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You'll be glad to know this play has a simpler answer than you thought: "M" for "Mayfair Split," which is illustrated in the tutorial, diagram #29. You split, come down and make an inside point, except that the interpretation of "down" is flexible: you can play that portion of the move within (instead of to) the outer board. Indeed, in the early game, coming down with a 1 is blocked.
Hence, in the diagram, Your 22/21 8/7 6/5(2) play is M, and 24/23 8/7 6/5(2) is m.
Do we officially use the process of elimination when nactating? When we Scoot with S, do we always Scoot a single die and always the foremost checker when the back checkers are already split? I would guess so, as not to have S interfere too much with elements of the U/V family, but not sure.
I'll assume that your first sentence is meant to put the second sentence in context; if it was intended to be separate, please rephrase. For the Scoot question, the answer is yes.
M handles the entire 22/21 8/7 6/5(2) play from the diagram perfectly, but if you don't know M or prefer to use assumptive Nactation anyway, you would reason thusly: "Making the 5pt is obvious, leaving 22/21 8/7 as the part I nactate, and the best letter for that is B." This was Petter's suggestion.
[As 13/12 is blocked, you could skate by with S or Z instead, seeing 8/7 as the "down" part -- it couldn't reasonably mean anything else in context. However, as a rule I limit S/Z to strict split-and-down or scoot-and-down plays (i.e., to rather than also within the outer board), because it creates an efficient division of labor with B. If S were given the run of the table, then opening 41S would mean 24/20 8/7, ugh.]
Petter's alternate suggestion of U is somewhere between tolerable and okay. Should we expect that all readers will automatically play 8/7 mentally as the third ace and focus only on the last one? Perhaps I'm overly careful, but I'd be concerned that some reader would assume only 6/5*(2) and allocate the other two aces to Opp's inner board. Granted, he could reason that a character from the E family would be a bulletproof way to nactate such a move and therefore deduce something else is meant by U and guess right, but then again he might not think of E. Or he might reason that since the more articulate M or B wasn't chosen, that U might mean something other than 22/21 8/7 6/5(2)! It is because of such mental wandering and wondering that I prefer to minimize assumption as much as reasonably possible.
Nack