Thinking about this a little more: my short term advice to you would be to use FieldCache.getCustom with your own SortComparator that just returns the Float/Int value parsed fro mthe string ... the Comparable[] should default to "null" for any doc that doesn't have a value for the field, so you'll be able to tell which ones have no value.
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