Actually I do indeed work in different lighting. A large venue for sports RARELY has even lighting anywhere, even on the floor. So I can have over or underexposed shots while shooting action, and since the office requests that I shoot the crowds, even those way up in the club seats, that lighting is dismal. I have 7 years of sports shooting executed through this kind of workflow.
I have developed this methodology over nearly a decade, and it has greatly sped up post processing of hundreds of images for each event shot. It took a while, but once I dug into the color channels and treated them differently depending on the model of camera, it changed everything. Noiseware as well is an OUTSTANDING product. It has so many controls/sliders/tabs and does noise reduction so well, it is the primary tool I use, along with a host of other PS filters.
Also, please remember I have 3 different actions developed by camera model. If I had a mix of ISO from 1600 through 25600, I would group the results of the shoot into 3 folders and then run a different action on each folder. This makes the assumption as well that if you have underexposed or overexposed shots, you have taken care of them first, before sorting the images out by level of noise. You could have a 1600 ISO that needs the aggressive action because you digitally brightened it 2-3 stops and for some bodies, that is a recipe for ugliness.
I also use auto ISO in manual mode with EC+1/3 which really helps even out the shots during an event. The 2015-2016 was primarily shot with a 7D2, so you can dig through all these images to see what you think. There are good results and bad results mixed throughout, but those results were the impetus where I became a paid Pacers shooter.
