Reflection effect shape, as measured by the first harmonic strength, plotted against inclination for non-eclipsing sdB+dM/BD binaries. Top panel: results for synthetic light curves from lcurve are shown over a range of orbital periods. Bottom panel: measurements for fully solved reflection effect binaries from Paper I (red points) are plotted on top of results for synthetic light curves with a period of 5 h (black points and lines), which is near the peak of the observed period distribution for sdB+dM/BD binaries. The sizes of the red points scale inversely with orbital period (i.e., the shortest-period systems have the largest symbols).