We hypothesize that the baseline correction procedure results in a systematic deflation of scores relative to uncorrected spectra because of the peak intensity scaling factor found in the SIS equation. While lowering scores seems counterintuitive, by mitigating solvent baselines from spectra, we provide a more direct measure of the "success" of a model at predicting infrared spectra of the analyte molecules instead of a convolution that includes background noise. This effect is more rigorously discussed with additional reasoning in the Model Performance section.