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builtbykev 929fd81940 Repair the champion: it was reading ten games, not a season
PHASE 0 — the defect is real past the peek. Against a FAIR point-in-time
baseline (each player's rate over games strictly before that date, >=10
prior games, box scores back to 05-01), the served champion LOSES on all
four stats, three of four CIs excluding zero:

  hits  0.00251 vs 0.00774  CI [-0.0074,-0.0011]
  TB    0.00393 vs 0.00619  CI [-0.0055,-0.0003]
  rbi   0.02481 vs 0.03133  CI [-0.0153,-0.0005]
  runs  0.00181 vs 0.00683  CI [-0.0114,+0.0008]

PHASE 1 — the cause is the WINDOW, not the weights. estimateProbability
builds its base rate as the frequency over every row it is handed, and
featureCache.getStatRows handed it res.last10. So the "season rate" was a
TEN-GAME rate, and 0.4 of the forecast was the last five OF THOSE TEN. The
0.40 recency weight costs resolution on all four stats (-0.00086,
-0.00107, -0.00562, -0.00365). Nudges are mixed and small -- harmful on
hits and rbi, marginally helpful on TB and runs -- so they are left alone.

PHASE 2 — two lines, no new data, no extra API call, because fullLog was
already fetched by the same adapter call that produced last10:
getStatRows now reads fullLog, and RECENCY_WEIGHT goes 0.40 -> 0.20.

  hits  0.00251 -> 0.00817  (tripled; now above the fair baseline)
  TB    0.00393 -> 0.00734  (above baseline; vs old CI [0.0020,0.0067])
  rbi   0.02481 -> 0.02727  (still below baseline, CI includes zero)
  runs  0.00181 -> 0.00436  (still below baseline, CI includes zero)

Gate stated exactly: hits and TB now exceed the fair baseline on the point
estimate; rbi and runs remain below but EVERY CI now includes zero, so no
stat reliably loses to a frequency table. That is a tie on rbi/runs, not a
win, and it is reported as one. Only TB's improvement over the old
champion is CI-confirmed; the rest are directional.

STALE-FIT GATE: CALIBRATION_DEPLOYED is now EMPTY. The low-param maps were
fitted on the retired forecast and fromLedger cannot rescue them -- settled
ledger rows still carry OLD p_win, so refitting today would refit the
retired forecast. Nothing is served calibrated until dates settle under
the repaired champion, and the favourite-longshot bias must be re-measured
rather than assumed to survive. The shadow duel is void.

PHASE 3 — the hits factor lift is NOT re-measured, and cannot be yet: it
needs settled rows produced BY the repaired champion, which ships in this
commit. Replaying would score the factors against a reconstruction rather
than the served forecast. Deferred, explicitly. The factors remain wired
and transmitting; only their lift is unquantified on the new baseline.

PHASE 4 — standing flag, and it is large: EVERY factor verdict in this
programme, every null and every THEATER, was measured against a champion
worse than a frequency table. Signal added to noise reads as noise. Prior
verdicts may deserve re-audit. Logged, not re-run.

Re-queued not built: rbi lineup-slot / RISP opportunity through the
two-part gate, now landing on a repaired champion.

Serving-path change by design; the byte-identical invariant inverted and
all four stats move. Nine frozen model modules verified unchanged. No
Bonferroni slot -- resolution accounting on the champion's own knobs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-07 03:28:33 -04:00
builtbykev 43f65d30cb Wire the three proven hits factors pre-grade: transmission proven, gain
inconclusive

THE BUG THIS NEARLY SHIPPED AS A FINDING. The first audit reported 0
factors fired on all 1,140 rows. Not a result -- my paging helper ordered
by `id`, and batter_spray, team_defense, platoon_splits and
statcast_aggregates have composite primary keys with NO id column. The
query errored, the loop broke on error, and four fully-populated tables
read as empty. hitsFactorContext.js -- the PRODUCTION loader -- had the
identical defect, so live wiring would have loaded nothing and served
unadjusted while logging success. Third occurrence of this class in one
session. Both loaders now order by a real column and THROW rather than
degrade. The Phase 2 gate is what caught it: no resolution number was
quoted until transmission was proved.

PHASE 1 — pipeline is now base -> FACTORS -> CALIBRATE -> GRADE. Context
built in snapshotService BEFORE gradeAndCacheSlate (was line 640+, grade
at 454), threaded per prop, applied to p_over before p_win is set with
p_win_prefactor and a full trace retained. Hits only. Coverage 859/1140
rows (75%): 474 with all three factors, 256 two, 129 one, 281 none.

PHASE 2 — TRANSMISSION PROVEN, 12/12 sign-correct, 4/4 per factor, each
applied IN ISOLATION. My first table compared each factor's expected sign
against the COMPOSITE change and showed 3 false failures -- with three
factors firing the net can oppose any single member; that was a flaw in
the test, not the wiring. Two under-side rows confirm the flip is handled:
a factor raising p(over) correctly lowers p_win. Switch hitters (Bailey,
Bell, Rocchio) took no spray adjustment while their other factors fired
normally -- the refusal is selective, not a blanket skip.

PHASE 3/4 — both maps refit on the factor-adjusted forecast; the
shadow-duel baseline is VOID and restarts, since it accumulated against a
different forecast. Point-in-time, 765 held-out rows:

  reliability 0.00795 -> 0.00828
  RESOLUTION  0.00229 -> 0.00345   (variance explained 0.93% -> 1.39%)
  Brier       0.25398 -> 0.25305   delta -0.00093  CI [-0.00225,+0.00002]

Resolution rose 51% relative. The CI TOUCHES ZERO on 4 eval dates, so the
composition does NOT earn a proven keep -- three isolated passes did not
grant a composed pass. INCONCLUSIVE, reported as such. The gain is far
below the sum of the isolated effects, which is expected: all three run
through the same pitcher-batter confrontation and share signal.

PHASE 5 — 1.39% of variance is still far below what band separation
needs. The pivot was correct and incomplete: the plumbing defect was real
and is fixed, three proven factors reach the served number for the first
time, and transmission alone did not buy grade separation. Next arc is
factor STRENGTH and BREADTH, not more plumbing.

PHASE 6 — rbi anomaly logged, not chased: 14.51% variance explained vs
hits 1.03%, on the stat we do not serve corrected and which has no proven
factors. Either the biggest lever on the board or a mirage; it deserves
its own order.

The byte-identical invariant INVERTED for hits by design. All 13 frozen
non-hits modules verified unchanged, probabilityEstimator included -- the
factors ride outside it. No new Bonferroni slot; the composed OOS claim is
reported with its CI and not claimed as a pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-07 02:53:48 -04:00
builtbykev e872eff4ce Instrument the calibration duel forward; diagnose the resolution ceiling
— the proven factors were never wired in

PHASE 0 — two truths recorded. The swap is a BET, not an OOS win:
isotonic beat low-param on identical held-out rows (hits +0.0028, rbi
+0.0042, TB tied) and we serve low-param anyway on an untestable prior
about shared daily structure. At 19 dates nothing here can test it. And
the MIN_SLOPE catch is preserved as standing rationale: a near-zero or
negative slope collapses toward base-rate-for-everything, which LOWERS
Brier while destroying all resolution -- a metric win that guts the
product.

PHASE 1 — the duel is now falsifiable. Both corrections computed on every
hits/TB prop; p_win_lowparam served, p_win_isotonic_shadow logged in its
own try so it can never break serving. calibrationDuel.adjudicate encodes
the rule IN CODE before any forward date exists: >=10 forward dates and
isotonic winning with a date-block CI excluding zero => REFUTED, revert;
otherwise UPHELD; under 10 dates PENDING regardless of the numbers. A
date counts as forward only if NEITHER map was fitted on it -- otherwise
we would be scoring which map memorised better. Nothing swaps now.

PHASE 2 — the ceiling, quantified via Murphy decomposition:

  stat   reliability  RESOLUTION  uncertainty  variance explained
  hits      0.01353     0.00252      0.24532        1.03%
  TB        0.01419     0.00442      0.24329        1.82%
  rbi       0.00654     0.03268      0.22531       14.51%
  runs      0.00788     0.00130      0.23182        0.56%

Calibration did exactly what theory says and nothing more: hits
reliability 0.01353 -> 0.00233 (-0.0112, 83% of the error removed) while
resolution moved -0.0002. Unexpected: rbi has 13x the resolution of hits
and is the one stat we do NOT serve corrected -- it needs calibration
least and discriminates most.

PHASE 2 DIAGNOSIS — NOT-TRANSMITTED, and not weak, ABSENT. Traced in code:
sprayDefense.js and platoonSeverity.js are required by NOTHING in src/,
only by analysis scripts and their own tests. The served p_win
(intelligence/probabilityEstimator.js:54) reads exactly four inputs --
game-log frequency, opp_rank_stat +/-0.03, home_away +/-0.015, and a cv
pull -- with zero occurrences of spray, platoon, hard-hit or
contact-profile. And snapshotService grades at line 454 while computing
challenger/context at 640+, so everything proven is computed DOWNSTREAM of
the grade it would inform. The three proven hits factors have never once
moved a served number.

That reframes the recent nulls: "calibrated p_win does not separate within
archetype" was never a statement about factors. The factors were not in
the forecast.

PHASE 3 — bands rebuilt on SERVED values (hits/TB low-param, rbi/runs
raw): 28 archetype slots across four stats, ZERO show lift. No longer an
open shrug -- it is the arithmetic of resolution 0.0013-0.0327 against
uncertainty ~0.23. A forecast explaining 1% of variance cannot produce
separating bands, and no correction to its numbers will change that.

HEADLINE: calibration is complete, delivered honest numbers on two stats
and zero grade separation, because the counter has no resolution -- and
the proven factors are not wired into the forecast at all. The second is
the reason for the first, and it is plumbing rather than a modelling wall.
Per-archetype grades need proven factors that actually reach p_win. Last
calibration order.

Serving unchanged from 74cf1ce. p_win never mutated. No Bonferroni slot.
Counter and frozen clusters verified file-by-file (15 modules).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-07 02:25:45 -04:00
builtbykev 74cf1ce974 Robust bias established; low-parameter correction replaces isotonic
PHASE 0 — sample-limit truth on record: on 19 dates BOTH stability
instruments are underpowered. LODO power 0.014-0.093 (best 0.337 across
every k tried); deploy CIs rest on 2-4 date clusters, where a
cluster-robust interval has ~1 df. This is the SAMPLE, not a fixable
instrument, and the gate-refinement loop stops here. Runs corrected: its
DATE-DRIVEN label was an artefact of the coin-flip ruler (2 reversals in
3 drops never cleared cutoff 2) -- it is an ordinary no-fittable-map
refusal.

PHASE 1 — the bias is ROBUST, tested model-free and map-free with a
date-block bootstrap. Pooled over-prediction rises monotonically -0.0076
/ +0.0428 / +0.0963 / +0.1589 / +0.2451 across deciles from 0.5 to 1.0,
sign stability 0.9946 over 17 date blocks, and 4 of 4 stats replicate
(bar was 3). Also visible: realized rate PLATEAUS at 0.65-0.68 from p=0.7
upward -- the 0.9+ bucket (0.6624) does no better than the 0.8-0.9 bucket
(0.6841). The model has no high-confidence reads, only high-confidence
numbers.

PHASE 3 — Platt, two parameters over the whole curve, shrunk toward
identity by fit-date count. Validated as a NEW estimator vs RAW with
date-block CIs:

  hits         a=0.406 shrink 0.565  0.2626 -> 0.2540  CI [-0.0112,-0.0069]  DEPLOY
  total_bases  a=0.472 shrink 0.333  0.2490 -> 0.2429  CI [-0.0062,-0.0059]  DEPLOY
  rbi          a=0.775 shrink 0.231  0.2011 -> 0.2007  CI [-0.0007, 0]       REFUSE
  runs         a=-0.032                                                      REFUSE

A GUARD THE FIRST RUN NEEDED: runs fitted a = -0.032. A non-positive
slope inverts the forecast rather than flattening it, and near zero the
curve collapses to a constant predicting the base rate for everything --
which LOWERS Brier while destroying all resolution. It would have scored
as a win while making the product worthless. MIN_SLOPE now refuses it by
name, with a test.

STATED PLAINLY: on the identical held-out rows isotonic BEAT the
low-param on hits (+0.0028) and rbi (+0.0042) and tied on TB. The swap is
a CAPACITY JUDGEMENT, not a measurement -- the window spans 2-4 date
blocks and that is exactly what a flexible map produces when it captures
structure shared by fit and eval. Labelled as a judgement.

PHASE 4 — hits and total_bases serve the correction, basis
direction_robust_magnitude_provisional (direction bootstrap-robust,
magnitude thin-sample and shrunk). rbi is WITHDRAWN to raw -- it was
deployed on isotonic at ced4042 and the low-param does not beat raw.
runs stays raw. Auto-demotion still armed.

PHASE 5 — the standing finding, stated hard: across 18 archetype slots on
three stats, calibrated p_win separates within archetype NO BETTER than
raw. Every slot is one band indistinguishable from its base rate, zero
show lift. Per-archetype separation is not coming from calibration; it
comes from proven factors or it does not exist. Five orders of
calibration have delivered what they can -- honest numbers on two stats --
and nothing on the question the grade product turns on.

p_win never mutated; no Bonferroni slot; the robust-claim test ran before
any calibrator was built and could have ended the session at Phase 2.
Counter and frozen clusters verified file-by-file, including calibration.js
and calibrationService.js, both untouched and simply off the serving path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-06 23:20:05 -04:00
builtbykev ced40421ed Audit the LODO instrument: it cannot evaluate any stat, and both prior
FAILs were false

PHASE 0 — the gate at 1f40014 was mine and was an incoherent pair. A 1-SE
informativeness bar with a ZERO-reversal rule: at exactly 1 SE a stable
stat's drop reverses with prob Phi(-1)=0.1587, so on four informative
drops P(>=1 reversal | perfectly stable) = 1 - 0.8413^4 = 0.50. It failed
stable stats half the time by construction. And the pooled n*=70
mis-credited EVERY stat -- too low for hits (own 77) and runs (81), too
high for total_bases (60) and rbi (54).

PHASE 1, blind. Per-stat (g, sigma_row): hits -0.01288/0.11251, TB
-0.01380/0.10680, rbi -0.00884/0.06459, runs -0.00902/0.08080. All four
clear z=1.96 at full n, so none is NO-EFFECT. Committed k=1 with per-stat
n* and a binomial cutoff holding FP at 0.004-0.031.

THE FINDING THAT DOMINATES: the test has no power. Against a strong
instability (date-to-date SD equal to the effect) it detects a failure
1.4%-9.3% of the time, and across every k from 1.0 to 2.0 the best any
stat reaches is 0.337. A gate that cannot fail cannot pass, so
LODO_POWER_FLOOR=0.50 makes UNTESTABLE structural -- "could not test" can
never read as "passed".

PHASE 2/3 cold, at each stat's OWN n*:

  hits  5 informative, 0 reversals, cutoff 2, power 0.093  UNTESTABLE
  TB    5 informative, 0 reversals, cutoff 2, power 0.093  UNTESTABLE
  rbi   4 informative, 1 reversal,  cutoff 2, power 0.045  UNTESTABLE
  runs  3 informative, 2 reversals, cutoff 2, power 0.014  UNTESTABLE

Setting the power floor aside entirely, NOT ONE STAT EXCEEDS ITS CUTOFF.

PHASE 4 — rbi's FAIL was false, as the order suspected. So was RUNS' --
which the order did not anticipate, having classified it DATE-DRIVEN on a
244-row reversal; two reversals in three drops does not clear a cutoff of
2. TB's PASS was vacuous: the test could not have failed it. hits' own n*
is LARGER than the pooled one (77 vs 70), and it remains untestable.

PHASE 5 — deploy basis is now the date-clustered CI alone:

  hits  CI [-0.0139,-0.0097], 4 date clusters   relabelled ci_only
  TB    CI [-0.0061,-0.0045], 2 date clusters   RELABELLED, kept
  rbi   CI [-0.0092,-0.0010], 2 date clusters   NEWLY DEPLOYED
  runs  no fittable map at its split            REFUSE, no CI either

Every deployed stat carries calibration_basis ci_only_lodo_untestable and
auto-demotion is the SOLE stability guard, not a backstop to a passed
test. Stated plainly: those intervals rest on 2-4 date clusters, which is
thin, and it is now the only support. rbi gains chainAcross stackability;
its bands rebuilt on p_win_calibrated (425 rows) are every-archetype
base_rate. runs is queued for the low-param calibrator for the ordinary
reason -- no fittable map -- not on the date-driven finding, which was an
artefact.

PHASE 6 — the deploy set was set by a coin-flip-power ruler; it is now set
by a per-stat power-coherent pre-committed test whose first act was to
report that it cannot evaluate anything. The audit was permitted to wound
the live deploy and did: total_bases lost its LODO claim. Standing
question unchanged -- 18 archetype slots across three deployed stats, every
one a single band indistinguishable from base rate.

Blind ordering held. p_win never mutated. No Bonferroni slot. Counter and
frozen clusters verified file-by-file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-06 23:01:57 -04:00
builtbykev 1f40014256 Power-derive the LODO threshold: hits restored through the gate, rbi/runs
routed as date-driven

PHASE 0 — threshold derived BLIND, before any stat was re-read. A
reversal is informative only if that date's Brier delta is
distinguishable from zero at its row count. Per-row Brier difference
d_i = (pc-y)^2 - (p-y)^2, so SE(n) = SD(d)/sqrt(n) and
n* = (SD(d)/|effect|)^2. Pooled across all four stats so no single
stat's verdict could shape the threshold deciding it:

  pooled rows 3,417 | SD(d) 0.09816 | |effect| 0.01175
  n* = (0.09816/0.01175)^2 = 69.8 -> 70

The hand-chosen 20 sat at 0.54 SE -- a coin flip. That is the defect
this removes, and why the previous verdict moved with the number.
Committed as calibrationRegistry.LODO_MIN_HELD_ROWS = 70 with
LODO_THRESHOLD_BASIS; a test recomputes (SD/effect)^2 and asserts it
equals the constant, so it cannot drift from its own justification. The
derivation script prints no stat verdict, no date and no reversal.

PHASE 1 — LODO at n*, applied cold:

  hits         5 informative drops, 0 reversals   PASS
  total_bases  4 informative drops, 0 reversals   PASS
  rbi          reverses 2026-08-01 (n=99)         FAIL
  runs         reverses 08-01 (n=86), 08-05 (244) FAIL

hits held-out deltas -0.0041/-0.0080/-0.0192/-0.0140/-0.0139 across
123-272 row dates, favourite sign holding on every testable drop. THIS IS
THE INSTRUMENT FINALLY POWERED, NOT VINDICATION OF A PREDICTION -- the
withdrawal at 6ae11f1 was correct on the instrument available then, which
admitted 20- and 25-row dates as evidence. Nothing about hits changed;
the threshold stopped being chosen.

PHASE 2 — both failures are DATE-DRIVEN, not underpowered. Every
reversal sits above n*=70 (99, 86, 244), so no threshold and no further
accrual rescues either: isotonic is fitting day-structure. Routed to the
low-parameter calibrator queue (Platt/beta), not built here.

PHASE 3 — CALIBRATION_DEPLOYED is now ['hits','total_bases'], frozen and
tested, both PROVISIONAL with auto-demotion armed and the >=40
date-cluster promotion bar unchanged. hits stackability for
chain.chainAcross is RESTORED, and the record shows it returned through
the powered gate rather than by fiat. hits bands rebuilt on
p_win_calibrated (765 eval rows): every archetype still one band, still
base_rate -- calibrated YES, proven-per-archetype NO.

PHASE 4 logged: the deploy set is now set by a power-derived,
pre-committed, tested constant rather than an operator-chosen number. At
6ae11f1 that rule moved the live path AGAINST the operator; it has now
moved it back on the same evidence because the instrument changed. Both
directions are the rule working. And calibrated p_win separates within
archetype no better than raw across 13 archetype slots on two deployed
stats -- per-archetype separation will come from proven factors or not at
all.

p_win never mutated; no Bonferroni slot consumed; counter and frozen
clusters verified byte-identical file by file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-06 20:15:32 -04:00
builtbykev 6ae11f1193 LODO-gated provisional calibration: total_bases deploys, hits withdrawn
PHASE 0 — I applied factorGate's >=40 date-cluster floor to a calibration
layer without challenging the binding. That floor is a cluster-robust
interval bar for a CAUSAL claim. Calibration makes no causal claim, has a
bounded failure mode (it can only over- or under-shrink) and consumes no
Bonferroni slot. Its real risk is that the correction is DATE-DRIVEN, and
leave-one-date-out tests that directly -- a STRICTER bar, since a cluster
count cannot detect a single day carrying the effect. The >=40 floor is
retained, correctly scoped as the PROMOTION bar.

PHASE 1 — both guards codified, 11 tests, green before Phase 2.
Demonstrated on live data: raw population violated=true, mean_p 0.4962,
both_sides_share 0.9763; after dedup violated=false, mean_p 0.6694. The
null guard's test demonstrates the trap explicitly, since (null-1)**2 is
1 and (null-0)**2 is 0 so a Brier over nulls equals the win rate.

PHASE 2 — LODO:

  hits         n=1140 dates=17  2 reversals (07-22 n=20, 07-26 n=25)  FAIL
  total_bases  n=1050 dates=7   0 reversals, 0 sign flips             PASS
  rbi          n= 630 dates=5   1 reversal  (08-01 n=99)              FAIL
  runs         n= 597 dates=5   2 reversals (08-01 n=86, 08-05 n=244) FAIL

Threshold sensitivity reported because the verdict moves: total_bases
passes at every held-size threshold, runs fails at every one, and hits
fails ONLY when 20/25-row dates are admitted. I fixed MIN_HELD_ROWS=20
before seeing which stats passed and did not move it afterwards to
preserve a deploy. Honest caveat: a per-date Brier delta on 20 rows has a
standard error several times the effect, so the instrument is
underpowered per-drop -- an argument for pre-registering a higher
threshold, which is a Roundtable call, not one to make while holding the
results.

PHASE 3 — total_bases DEPLOY-PROVISIONAL, band [0.6-0.8]. hits, rbi and
runs REFUSE.

HITS WAS BEING SERVED CALIBRATED AND IS NOT ANY MORE. snapshotService
hardcoded it since S91; it fails LODO, so it is out. A stat that cannot
survive dropping one day was never calibrated, it was fitted to that day.
The consequence is real -- hits props become unstackable for
chain.chainAcross -- and it errs toward withdrawing a claim rather than
preserving one on a fragile verdict. Deployment is now driven by a frozen,
tested CALIBRATION_DEPLOYED set, not a hardcoded stat name.

PHASE 4 — calibrationRegistry, 14 tests. Deploy needs BOTH gates, neither
waivable. reverify auto-demotes on the first breach (CI stops excluding
zero, or the favourite bias flips sign) and logs the breaking date.
Promotion needs the original >=40 bar. A provisional deploy that cannot be
taken away is just a deploy.

PHASE 5 — TB bands rebuilt on calibrated values, 625 eval rows. The
two-bar rule still bites: calibrated YES, proven NO, so they stay a
base-rate read, now honestly numbered. Every archetype still collapses to
one band -- calibrated p_win separates within archetype no better than raw.

PHASE 6 logged only: the dead gradient is buried (hits~TB > runs > RBI,
and RBI has the SMALLEST bias, so the skill-driven-gradient mechanism did
not survive); the refused set is a map of missing inputs; a low-parameter
calibrator is queued unbuilt.

p_win never mutated; calibration rides as p_win_calibrated with
calibration_status provisional. No Bonferroni slot consumed. Counter and
frozen clusters byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-06 18:31:19 -04:00
builtbykev 4d1803f6d7 Calibrate hits point-in-time: partial pass, and an honest ceiling of 0.667
Fitted the isotonic map on game_date < 2026-08-02 (n=589) and evaluated it on
everything from that date forward (n=383). The map never saw the evaluation
rows, which is the only thing that makes the result mean anything -- fitting
and evaluating on the same rows always looks perfectly calibrated, because the
map is reciting the answers it was built from.

It works, on most of the distribution. Held-out after correction: 0.477 comes
back 0.506, 0.587 comes back 0.580, 0.667 comes back 0.603 -- against raw
errors of +0.191, +0.279 and +0.246 in the same bins. Ordering survived, and
that was verified pairwise rather than assumed, because a broken map would
silently destroy the one thing this model does well.

Two findings matter more than the pass.

First, the honest ceiling is 0.667. Once the numbers are truthful this model
has no 80%-plus hit reads at all -- the top of its range was miscalibration,
not confidence. A four-leg ticket at the ceiling is 0.198, where the raw
numbers implied 0.686. The high-floor parlay is a two-thirds-per-leg
proposition, and that is the number to say out loud.

Second, calibration is certified BY BAND rather than by a blanket flag.
Held-out error was -0.029 and +0.007 through the middle but -0.167 at the
bottom and +0.063 at the top: the model is trustworthy over most of its mass
and untrustworthy at both edges. A single true/false would either throw away
the 72% that works or ship the edges that do not. Only a probability inside a
certified band is marked stackable, and that flag is what chainAcross requires
before it will compound anything. The certified band is 0.40 to 0.60, n=276.

A methodological catch on the way: my first pass condition demanded honest bins
at 0.70 and above -- but honest calibration REMOVES those bins, since the
ceiling drops to 0.667. The gate would have failed the repair for succeeding.
It now tests the highest remaining band instead of a fixed threshold.

Wired forward with the same discipline: calibrationService fits strictly before
today, splits by time rather than at random, and returns null on thin history
so that "no calibrator" means nothing is stackable rather than "trust the raw
numbers". p_win is never mutated -- the calibrated value rides beside it as
p_win_calibrated, because a calibration map is a correction to a forecast, not
a different forecast, and the counter stays byte-identical.

4,275 tests green (339 suites); web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-04 17:51:15 -04:00
builtbykev 08276c0880 Ingest lineup + baserunner context: the input RBI and runs always needed
RBI is power TIMES opportunity. The same swing drives in one run or three
depending on who is on base, and a hitter batting with the bases empty cannot
drive anyone in however hard he hits it. Every context-free model of RBI here
has failed, and the failure kept being read as 'skill inputs don't work for
RBI' when the truth was that we were modelling half the stat.

Both halves are free from statsapi.mlb.com, which we already call for game
logs, schedules and probable pitchers. No new provider, no key, no quota.

RUNG 1, batting order: schedule?hydrate=lineups returns homePlayers and
awayPlayers as ORDERED arrays of nine, and the order IS the batting order --
index 0 is the leadoff hitter. That single fact gives CATALYST its identity
and supplies lineup-position context for every context-dependent stat.

RUNG 2 turned out cheap, which the cheapest-first rule did not expect. It
looked like it would need play-by-play reconstruction across a season; statsapi
serves situational splits directly, so 'how often does this hitter bat with
runners to drive in' is ONE call per player rather than one per game. Measured
on a real hitter: 87 plate appearances with runners in scoring position
producing 25 RBI, against 302 with the bases empty producing 17. That ratio is
the opportunity half of the stat and it is the thing no amount of exit velocity
can tell you.

Both tables are dated in the primary key. statcast_aggregates was built
upsert-in-place and that silently made every backtest leak the games it was
predicting; a lineup is worse still, because it is a PRE-GAME fact that changes
by the hour, so an in-place table would overwrite what we knew at grade time
with what turned out to be true.

Absent stays absent throughout: no lineup posted is an empty slate rather than
a guessed order, a short lineup records fewer slots rather than padding to
nine, and a hitter with no splits is null rather than a zero RISP share --
which would assert he never bats with runners on, a strong claim and usually a
false one.

Wired into the snapshot best-effort, so a context failure can never break the
pipeline it rides in. The three pre-registered theories are now marked
input-ready rather than input-blocked: DRIVER's power x runners-on and power x
lineup-position, and CATALYST's speed x on-base x power-behind. They are
sample-blocked from here, and the proofs run under native cumulative
correction as sample accumulates -- ingesting is not proving.

Counter and frozen clusters byte-identical. 4,250 tests green (338 suites);
web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1sivYNqY2TS5ftykmHBU9
2026-08-04 16:07:13 -04:00
builtbykev 5de464330c URGENT: anchor the ledger price/book/takeable to TAKEABLE books
Ships before tonight's settle. Served path, champion, ranking and the
reference ruler are untouched.

TWO leaks, not one. The audit found ledgerService.indexProps; tracing the
lock price found that snapshotService.indexOdds has the SAME defect -- it
also indexed the full props list, so gradedAt.odds (the price a grade is
locked at) could itself be a DFS or exchange price. Fixing only the ledger
would have left the contamination flowing in through the lock.

Both now gate on TAKEABLE_BOOKS -- deliberately NOT MODEL_BOOKS. pinnacle
is model-eligible and correctly not takeable, so a MODEL gate would
re-break this the moment pinnacle's feed recovers. A test asserts pinnacle
cannot anchor a price.

TWO INDEXES, TWO ROLES, because the row needs two different things from a
prop and they have different correctness rules:
  PRICE / BOOK / TAKEABLE -- takeable books only.
  GAME FACTS (game_time, game_date, team/opponent) -- book-INDEPENDENT.
    First pitch is first pitch whichever book listed it, so these still
    come from any book. Gating them too would drop otherwise-valid rows
    for no gain.
Collapsing those roles into one index is precisely the bug.

No takeable quote leaves the key ABSENT and the price null. An honest
missing price beats a price from a book you cannot bet -- and it keeps the
takeable flag from being computed off a DFS number, which is what made it
wrong on its own terms rather than merely mislabelled.

Gates: 4,111 tests / 330 suites green; next build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJs13VsyiSKYQP6rj3NNmc
2026-08-02 14:17:51 -04:00
builtbykev 8d052131c5 Add a bisect hook (?limit=) to the internal snapshot trigger
The cap raise 25 -> 500 made an induced snapshot 502 at 13.4s and the run
did not complete in background either, while a 25-prop run had completed
in 16.3s. That rules out a simple duration timeout and means the cause has
to be measured, not guessed. ?limit= bounds one run so the regression can
be bisected without a prod env change; omitted, the real DEFAULT_LIMIT
applies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJs13VsyiSKYQP6rj3NNmc
2026-08-01 02:12:07 -04:00
builtbykev c7067c80c4 Persist lock-time multi-book lines to lock_lines (unblocks the staleness audit)
The over-side skew audit's confirming check — was our locked line stale-high vs
consensus AT LOCK — was BLOCKED because multi-book lines at lock were never
persisted (bookprices is Redis current-only). This persists them.

- migration 033: lock_lines table (tracked + applied to prod). One row per
  (graded prop × book) with both odds + a lock timestamp. RLS enabled, NO
  policies -> service-role only (fence). UNIQUE key -> idempotent re-runs.
- lockLineCapture.js: buildLockRows (pure, graded-props only, honest-absent
  single-book) + idempotent upsert persist. Built from the in-memory props at
  the LOCK moment (ts) -> no Redis re-read, no TTL race.
- snapshotService: persist right after `enriched` (the lock moment; gradedAt
  uses the same ts). Best-effort + fenced.

FENCE (measurement-only): lock_lines is read by NOTHING on the grade path
(gradeSlateService, snapshot dedup/indexOdds, challengers, selector, ledger) —
a grep test asserts it, and RLS locks it to the service role. Grade byte-
identical proven: runSnapshot grades are identical with persist on/off (test).

Volume ~1.5-3k rows/day (graded props x books x 5 snapshots); weeks retained,
no pruning needed short-term. Does NOT retroactively fix the existing 62 rows —
future accrual only; confirmation still needs weeks of settled rows. Full suite
3842 green, web build exit 0. No grade/locked_odds/outcome/served surface changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VsztNChZ7vEvSR61AuMhD1
2026-07-29 02:47:47 -04:00
builtbykev e81c9b8c51 Book Comparison Phase 1-3(backend): fenced per-book store + honest gated crown
Per-book prices existed only transiently (odds cache, ~1h, raw names, grade-path
input); every grade-path persistence point collapses to one book. The
/api/books feature was built+mounted but non-functional (fed FLAT rows to a
GROUPED comparator -> always empty).

Phase 1: bookPriceStore captures per-book prices from `props` BEFORE dedupeProps,
keyed nameKey|stat, into bookprices:{sport} (SNAP_TTL) in snapshotService. Fenced:
reads props, writes its own key, read by nothing on the grade path. Grade proven
byte-identical (test + no-grade-path-reference grep test).

Phase 2: scripts/measure-book-spread.js reports same-line best-vs-worst spread
(cents + implied-prob pts), per sport, never pooled. Pre-registered crown
threshold: median >=8c OR >=2pp. Runs post-deploy on real data.

Phase 3 (backend): compareProp is honest-absent (single-book/flat -> no crown)
and the crown is gated (BOOK_CROWN_ENABLED, default OFF until Phase 2 clears).
/api/books repointed to the snapshot-locked store (fallback odds cache),
nameKey-matched; `source` field is the deploy fingerprint.

HELD unchanged: dedupeProps, snapshot dedup, selector, grade, champion,
challengers, ranking, edge_pct/ev_pct. UI routing of BookComparison + crown
treatment deferred to post-measurement (gated on Phase 2). Full suite 3834 green,
web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VsztNChZ7vEvSR61AuMhD1
2026-07-27 00:45:01 -04:00
builtbykev 6386e737b9 proj-v1: absolute matchup projection challenger (distribution + full ladder)
A THIRD challenger (after arch-v1, contact-v1), MLB batting v1. Champion is
market-relative P(stat>LINE); proj-v1 is ABSOLUTE — what the hitter will DO —
emitted as a full distribution from which the WHOLE LADDER (P≥1,P≥2,P≥3) derives.
Champion untouched; nothing claimed; the ledger decides per rung, per stat.

- projection/distribution.js — Bayesian Gamma-Poisson → negative-binomial
  predictive. Admits over-dispersion; under-dispersion → Poisson approx
  (conservative, documented). Uncertainty scales with sample by construction
  (r=α): thin → WIDE (real mass on P≥1, honestly thin P≥3), thick → tight.
  NEVER abstains — width carries the honesty.
- projection/matchupRead.js — the input the book doesn't use. HONEST FIDELITY:
  pitcher repertoire is rich (97% pitch-mix) but hitters have NO pitch-type
  performance, so TRUE repertoire-vs-profile is impossible today. This is the
  COARSE version (arsenal buckets fastball/sinker/breaking + whiff/hard-hit
  tendency × hitter whiff/chase/gb-fb/hard-hit) — beats generic L/R, derived +
  documented + TESTED two-sided. A hitter pitch-type feed unlocks the true form.
- projectionChallenger.js — park RELATIVE to the player's own log exposure
  (isHome→own park, away→opp park; Phase B's raw-multiply bug solved), recency-
  weighted fit, per-factor breakdown (form/park/weather/platoon/matchup — show
  your work), full rung set + book-implied per rung. Combined non-form
  multiplier bounded.
- Wired after contact-v1, own try, flag PROJ_V1_ENABLED, reusing arch-v1's
  already-computed park/weather/platoon (no duplicate env I/O). Own ledger
  columns (migration 032, applied to prod): distribution, ladder, point, line,
  our-P, book-implied, factor breakdown — measurable per rung/stat after settle.

Phase 0 (prod-verified): venue join via isHome; NB family; uncertainty-as-width;
coarse matchup honest fidelity; no lineup-slot (per-game rate, volume implicit).
Sanity: thin-hot → wide (credible low rung, thin high rung); .300 hitter ≠ 3.0;
matchup two-sided; champion byte-identical. proj-v1 suites 23/23; snapshot/
ledger/siblings 74 green. Forward-only, version-stamped, PROJ_V1_ENABLED kill.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCNgGSt5qvcLxaeQqa7Zpj
2026-07-23 03:59:36 -04:00
builtbykev b6f12daa98 Contact-quality challenger (contact-v1) — nominate, don't swap
Phase A #2: the champion grade (l5/l20 result-based form) is a HYPOTHESIS that
contact quality predicts better — unmeasured on our props, with zero settled
p_win yet. Swapping l5/l20 (the champion's two heaviest ±1.0 factors) blind
could degrade the core grade undetectably for weeks. So this NOMINATES contact
quality as a second challenger, records what it WOULD project per prop, and lets
the settled ledger decide. Nothing users see changes; the champion is untouched.

- src/services/contactChallenger.js — pure, mirrors challengerProjection. Log-
  odds lean (capped, never a re-forecast) from SEASON contact quality vs league
  percentiles. Metric→prop mapping is the whole game: barrel_pct→HR,
  hard_hit_pct→TB/doubles, k_pct-INVERSE→hits (singles resolve on contact
  frequency, not barrels), k_pct→batter K. rbi/runs/walks ABSTAIN (opportunity/
  discipline — no clean contact predictor). Honest-absent: thin (<50 PA)/absent/
  unmapped/non-batter → p_win_contact NULL (no projection), never a fallback;
  "measured but unremarkable" is distinct (equals champion, delta 0).
- Wired in snapshotService AFTER arch-v1, reusing the already-loaded statcast
  rows; its own try so a second challenger can't break the pipeline. Reads
  g.p_win, never writes it.
- Retained SEPARATELY on the ledger (p_win_contact/contact_delta/
  contact_adjustments/contact_version='contact-v1') so each challenger's marginal
  contribution is measured independently; ledger_entries.stat gives per-prop-type
  segmentation. Migration 031 (applied to prod).

Phase 0 (prod-verified): statcast_aggregates is SEASON cumulative (not rolling),
48h stale now but season-scoped so ~8 PA/600 is negligible; 100% of graded
hitters covered, 92% at ≥50 PA; no xBA/xwOBA in the feed. Forward-only,
version-stamped (contact_version null on pre-nomination rows). Promotion is a
LATER decision on settled evidence, per prop type — never asserted here.

contactChallenger 14/14; snapshot/ledger/arch-v1 suites 80 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCNgGSt5qvcLxaeQqa7Zpj
2026-07-22 22:42:55 -04:00
builtbykev 7b25d97891 Wire the four dormant adjusters live — pure input-wiring
Verified state going in: parkBase, weatherMod and platoonSplits were called by
nothing, and env_multiplier was non-null on zero rows across four orders. The
adjusters were correct in isolation and starved of inputs. This gives them their
inputs and changes none of their internal logic — the five adjuster files are
byte-identical after this commit.

PHASE 0 GATE — all three inputs are available at snapshot build, and the two
join keys already existed. Venue: always, on every schedule game object.
First-pitch: always, gameTime on the same object. Opposing-pitcher hand:
present once the probable is declared, via the pitchers endpoint's pitcherId
joined to statsapi handedness — 15 of 15 games declared this afternoon, though
morning locks precede declaration and those props honest-absent on platoon,
correctly. The batter-handedness join (statcast bats) and the MLBAM id were
already on each grade from earlier sessions.

environmentContext.js is the wiring, kept separate from the adjusters so they
stay pure. It fetches once per snapshot: the schedule (team to venue, gameTime),
probable pitchers (team to opposing pitcher id), one batched handedness call,
one Open-Meteo forecast per home park, and batter splits per graded hitter. Park
coordinates for 30 parks live here as public geometry, the same class as the
dome list and centre-field bearings already in weatherMod, rather than inside an
adjuster. Everything is best-effort: a missing venue drops park and weather, an
undeclared pitcher drops platoon, and any fetch failure degrades that prop to
archetype-only rather than breaking the pipeline the adjusters are measured
inside.

attachChallenger becomes async and takes a per-grade contextFor that returns the
environment coefficient (park_base x weather_mod, composed) and the matchup
(platoon). Point-in-time holds: the weather is a forecast for first pitch fetched
now, and the split is the hitter's line entering the game — neither reads a
settle-time value.

Attribution is independent. env_multiplier, env_park_base, env_weather_mod and
env_weather_state land in their own ledger columns, and challenger_adjustments
keeps every axis — archetype, environment, matchup — as a separate entry, so
when volume accrues each of the four can be measured for its own marginal
contribution rather than as one blended delta.

The combined move stays bounded, tested on the worst case: a Coors slugger with
wind out and a favourable platoon, all at once, still moves under 12 percent,
because every layer is capped and the total nudge is clamped. Stacking leans, it
does not compound into a re-forecast.

Non-MLB honest-absents entirely — park, weather and platoon are MLB-only today,
so a WNBA prop gets no environment and no matchup.

The champion is untouched throughout: p_win is read, never written, the served
snapshot payload is still the enriched object, and a test confirms p_win passes
through byte-for-byte while the challenger moves.

Tests 3741 passed / 301 suites, web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCNgGSt5qvcLxaeQqa7Zpj
2026-07-21 21:38:51 -04:00
builtbykev f2da9dd7e8 Layer 3 Step 2: archetype-aware CHALLENGER, measured not claimed
The champion (probabilityEstimator -> p_win) keeps serving and grading users,
completely unchanged. The challenger is a second probability computed from the
same inputs at the same instant, landing on the same ledger row so it joins to
the same outcome and the same close. Identical conditions, one difference —
the only clean A/B.

NOTHING IS CLAIMED. Running a challenger is honest beta; asserting it is better
before the settled ledger says so is not. Promotion stays a later decision gated
on Brier and calibration over sufficient segmented volume.

INTERPRETABLE, NOT A RE-ESTIMATION. The challenger is the champion's probability
adjusted by the Layer-2 axes, applied in log-odds space so a nudge cannot push
past 0 or 1 and means the same thing at p=0.5 as at p=0.9. Every deviation is
attributable to a named axis and a signed nudge, stored as
challenger_adjustments, and the total is capped at 0.45 log-odds — a lean on a
real signal, never a re-forecast. Only mechanically obvious stat/axis
relationships are mapped; a speculative mapping would be the same guessing this
layer exists to replace.

IDENTICAL WHERE THERE IS NO SIGNAL, by construction. An unremarkable player, a
thin sample, an unmapped stat or a missing classification all return the
champion's probability byte-for-byte with an empty adjustment list and a stated
reason. The experiment therefore differs only where archetype-awareness could
possibly help or hurt, with no dilution from rows the treatment never touched.

Induced on real players. Judge home runs over: 0.42 -> 0.447, via BOMBER +0.22
and WHIFF RISK -0.11 — two real opposing signals netting positive. The same prop
under mirrors it exactly to -0.027. Judge strikeouts: delta exactly 0, because
WHIFF RISK and GRINDER cancel — an honest "no lean" with both signals still
recorded. Skubal strikeouts over: 0.60 -> 0.702 via WHIFF, TRAPDOOR and CANNON
all aligned; his hits-allowed goes the other way, 0.50 -> 0.392, because a
strikeout arm makes hits less likely. Josh Bell and a 12-PA sample are
untouched.

Isolation is structural: adjust() is pure, the champion field is read and never
written, the served snapshot payload is still the untouched champion object, and
a challenger failure is caught so it can never break the pipeline it is measured
inside. Statcast aggregates load once per snapshot run rather than per prop, so
grade-time I/O stays at zero.

Migration 034. Tests 3634 passed / 295 suites, web build exit 0.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCNgGSt5qvcLxaeQqa7Zpj
2026-07-20 23:53:32 -04:00
builtbykev 1bcdd8b305 Fix the ROOT: bind props to their real game, never date by the grade clock
Order 1.5 Phase 1. PropLine emits NO commence_time (grep-verified: zero
hits in proplineAdapter), so ledgerService's
`dateET(prop.game_time) || dateET(gradedTs)` always fell through to the
GRADE timestamp — and a 01:00/03:00 UTC snapshot is 21:00/23:00 ET the
PREVIOUS day. Tonight's props were filed under yesterday, settlement
correctly found no game there, and Order 1's void logic turned that into
64 destroyed results.

gameBinder.attachGameTimes() now matches every prop to a scheduled game by
TEAMS across the plausible ET window (grade date, +1, -1) and attaches the
GAME'S OWN time/date/id. It runs in snapshotService before grading and
before the ledger write, so ledger, retention and settlement all inherit
the correct date from one place.

HARD CONTRACT: an unbindable prop returns NOTHING. ledgerService no longer
has a grade-clock fallback — a row with no real game time is SKIPPED and
counted, because a mis-dated row is fabricated data and the ledger holds
real values or nothing. A slate that binds nothing pages.

DOUBLEHEADERS are reported, never guessed: two games with the same teams
on one date mark the binding `ambiguous` so settlement can decline rather
than attribute a prop to the wrong game. (Real example already in the
data: mlb:2026-07-11:MilwaukeeBrewers@PittsburghPirates(Game1).)

Also fixes retention, which had the SAME bug from last night — I had
dated model_snapshots rows with the snapshot clock. Rows now take the ET
date of the bound game_time.

Suite 282/3381 green, build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SmNjJAwEnqHPtXbvSZR8kA
2026-07-20 03:25:01 -04:00
builtbykev 5a5e37e32e Retention: fill enrichment fields + page on a zero-write slot
PHASE 1 — cron capture needed NO wiring. Verified in code: the scheduler
tick calls runAll = snapshotService.runAllSnapshots, which loops
runSnapshot per sport, which already carries the onGraded -> retention
hook. The scheduled path and the manual path are the SAME function. The
reason no cron cycle had been captured is simply that no slot has fired
since retention deployed (slots are 14/19/22/1/3 UTC; retention landed
~02:55). Induced proof follows the deploy.

PHASE 2 — archetype/team/opponent were permanently null because retention
persisted at GRADE time, before enrichment attaches them. Retention still
COLLECTS at grade time (the only moment the feature vector exists) but now
PERSISTS after enrichment, merging those three fields via
retentionService.mergeEnrichment. The merge is pure and fills ONLY those
three fields — features and every model output are grade-time values and
must never be rewritten by enrichment; a test asserts that. Unmatched rows
(refusals not in the enriched slate) keep nulls rather than guesses. The
empty-slate early return now persists too: a refusal-only slate is still
history worth keeping.

PHASE 3 — ZERO-WRITE ALARM. opsWatch.retentionZeroWriteAlarm pages at
missed-snapshot severity when a slot GRADED props but retention wrote
fewer rows than the slate (or nothing). runSnapshot now returns
retentionRows so the scheduler can evaluate it. Retention is best-effort
by design so it can never break a snapshot — which means a broken write is
silent by construction. This is the counterweight. A slot that graded
nothing never false-pages; an absent count reads as NOTHING and still
pages, distinct from a reported 0.

Suite 280/3349 green, build exit 0. Outcome stamping deliberately NOT
implemented (depends on the settlement fix).

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SmNjJAwEnqHPtXbvSZR8kA
2026-07-20 02:00:40 -04:00
builtbykev d3ffa1b8c2 Retention: model_snapshots live + base64 SSH key support
RETENTION (Phase 2, priority zero). History starts compounding tonight.

migration 025 model_snapshots — APPLIED to prod. Append-only, one row per
graded prop PER SIDE PER CYCLE, with a unique index on
(snapshot_id, player_key, stat, line, side) so a retried cycle cannot
duplicate. RLS on, service-role writes only.

What it captures that the ledger never did:
- features jsonb — the model's INPUTS. Without these a backtest can only
  grade our own homework; with them any future model can be replayed
  against the exact conditions this one faced.
- REFUSALS (refused + refusal_reason). The ledger drops them, so a gate
  refusing props that would have WON is invisible — unmeasurable lost
  edge. Captured via a new onGraded hook in gradeSlateService that fires
  with BOTH sides before any filtering.
- grade_11, the pre-collapse grade. The 4-letter map throws away the
  entire live C-/C/C+/B- range.
- model_version + code_sha on every row. ledger_entries mixes pre/post-fix
  grades with no marker and cannot be separated retroactively.
- p_win / ev_pct / fair_odds / takeable / value — none of which any
  permanent store held.

Wiring: analyzeViaEngine1 attaches _features/_grade_11 (underscore =
internal); gradeSlateService fires onGraded then STRIPS them so they never
reach a cache or API payload; snapshotService builds rows and persists
best-effort. Retention reuses the LEDGER's dateET/gameIdFor helpers so
rows share the ledger's natural key exactly — otherwise the settle pass
could never join outcomes onto them. Rows are written BEFORE the empty-
slate early return: a slate that refused everything is exactly the case
worth recording.

CONTRACT HELD: retention is injectable and every path is caught. persist()
returns errors, never throws; a missing Supabase client is SKIPPED, not an
error. A retention failure can never break a snapshot.

BACKUP: backup-db.sh now accepts BACKUP_SSH_KEY as base64 (recommended —
survives env-var newline mangling, which is how injected SSH keys usually
break silently) OR raw PEM, detected by decoding and looking for the PEM
header. Verified both forms detect correctly against a real generated key.

Suite 279/3325 green, build exit 0.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SmNjJAwEnqHPtXbvSZR8kA
2026-07-19 23:01:12 -04:00
builtbykev 1a94ef5fcf Revive the dead probability layer + restore grade range ON MERIT
Folds re-sequenced steps 1+2 into one change (Kev's call): same bug
family — features wired to sources that return null.

THE PROBABILITY LAYER WAS DEAD IN PRODUCTION. p_win/ev_pct/kelly/
model_odds/value were absent on 0/8 live grades because
gameLogService.getGameLogs returns null for MLB by construction and
depends on the offline Python service for NBA/WNBA, so meta.gameLogs was
[] for every sport. This was the S46 bug in a second location — that fix
gave featureCache an MLB branch (why grades still worked) but never the
estimator. featureCache.getStatRows now supplies normalized rows
([{date,[statType]:v}], most-recent-first) for every sport, feeding the
estimator AND consistency AND game_count_in_7d from one fetch.
VERIFIED on real props: p_win 25/25 WNBA, 8/8 MLB (was 0).

GRADE RANGE, ON MERIT — never by rescaling (permanent founder ruling:
minting A's without new information is a relabelled B sold as an A and
corrupts an append-only ledger).
- refreshTeamStats wired into runSnapshot — it had ZERO production
  callers, so opp_rank_stat was permanently null and a +/-1.0 factor
  could never fire. Test-env no-op (opsNotify precedent).
- L20 made SYMMETRIC: both branches were delta +1.0, so the season
  baseline could only ever ADD. No negative path was a structural reason
  D was unreachable. New l20_contradicts_* carries -1.0.
- game_count_in_7d derived from real logged dates (heavy_workload_7d).
- NOT wired, deliberately, with reasons inline: teamId (no team_id
  column; getFeatures reads it top-level; factor also needs a starter-id
  list) and season_type (ESPN 2 = REGULAR season; threading it raw would
  fire veteran_in_playoffs in July). Dead code dressed as a fix is the
  thing we are removing, not adding.

CALIBRATION GUARD (found by verifying, not assuming): consistency CV is
NBA-tuned; for a Poisson-ish stat cv ~ 1/sqrt(mean), so any stat with
mean < 4 auto-classifies boom_bust. First verification run showed 8/8 MLB
props boom_bust — a blanket -1.0 that dropped the board to all-C. Floored
at CONSISTENCY_MIN_MEAN=4 -> 'unknown' below. Absent beats wrong. MLB
low-count stats therefore still get no consistency factor: honest, not
fixed. Scale-free index-of-dispersion classifier is the open follow-up.

CONFIDENCE IS NOT A PROBABILITY: payloads carry confidence_basis:
'grade_band'. Corrected mlb-grade-degradation.md — its "25/25
grade<->confidence agreement" is a TAUTOLOGY (confidence is derived FROM
the letter, so it would report 25/25 even if every grade were wrong), not
a validation. Removed dead mlbGrader.js (referenced only by its own test)
and the stale computeFeatures comment claiming a penalty that never ran.

VERIFICATION (scripts/verify-grade-range.js, real props/logs/engine):
WNBA 25 props B 68%->32%, C 32%->64%, D 0->1 (4%); 11-step spread went
from 2 steps to 5 (C/C+/B-/D). The D is earned: Angel Reese assists o2.5,
p_win 0.365. Nothing flooded — grades got HARDER. A did not emit locally
because opp_rank_stat needs the Redis cache only prod populates (local
ceiling +3.0 vs the +4.5 A needs); reachability is proven arithmetically
and locked in tests. Prod A-emission is the outstanding fingerprint.

MARKETING HOLD: "A-RATED" (AccuracyBadge, TopSignals) is unsupported
until that fingerprint. Confirmed honest fallbacks render today —
/api/ledger/accuracy has B and C buckets only, so the badge shows
"MODEL · 63% HIT" and TopSignals self-hides. Nothing fabricated ships.

Suite 276/3286 green, web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SmNjJAwEnqHPtXbvSZR8kA
2026-07-19 18:54:51 -04:00
builtbykev 66d52a9ce0 Item 1 — VERB LAW: one verb, READ (never SCAN), + a lint that enforces it
The product argued with itself: FAB/nav said "Scan", Free tier "5 scans",
ticker "MLB slate scanned" — while the Ledger says "MY READS". Swept every
user-visible surface to READ:
- BottomTabBar FAB + Nav link: 'Scan' → 'Read'
- Pricing free tier: '5 scans to try the model' → '5 reads …'
- StatStrip: 'Awaiting next scan' → 'Awaiting next read'
- Ticker badge + snapshotService event: tag 'SCAN' → 'READ',
  'slate scanned' → 'slate read' (readSportOf parses BOTH old and new so
  cached ticker items dedupe cleanly through the rollover)
- upgradePitch: 'You've scanned N parlays' / 'unlimited scans' → read/reads

Internal untouched (not user-visible): /api/scan routes, scan_count column,
scanning state, DemoScan/ScanIcon, scanlines CSS, the transitional SCAN
color-map key.

tests/unit/verbLaw.test.js is the enforcement: it fails on user-visible
scan/scanned/scans copy across web/src + src/services (skips comments). Suite
270/3254 green, web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 15:26:49 -04:00
builtbykev 4cd933d83e Job 1: per-sport snapshot cadence (config, not baseball's rhythm for all)
Every ACTIVE sport was graded at all five MLB slots (14/19/22/1/3 UTC). Sports
post lines on different clocks, so that inheritance was wasteful both ways:
WNBA props aren't posted at 14:00 UTC (10am ET) → that slot always graded 0
(the audit's "wnba:0"); soccer odds come from the 500/MONTH odds-api key, so
five slots/day is a third of the budget for 1-2 matches.

New src/config/sportCadence.js is the single source of truth (config-over-
constants). Mapped from reality + quota headroom (PropLine 9k/day abundant,
odds-api 500/mo scarce):
  mlb    14/19/22/1/3  intraday   (full grid — games+props all day)
  nba    14/19/22/1/3  intraday   (in-season fits; off-season self-skips empty)
  wnba   19/22/1       intraday   (afternoon→evening ET; drops the 14/3 waste)
  soccer 14/19         NO intraday (WC live; 2 lean odds-api reads, key-protected)

The scheduler still fires at HOURS_UTC and the missed-cron watchdog still
references MLB (which runs every grid hour) — each slot now grades only
sportsForHour(h), and only intradaySports() get the 20-min refresh. Every
sport's hours are kept a subset of the firing grid (a boot-time guard + a test
warn if that's ever violated). Retune a sport by editing one table row.

Adaptive, not constant: near-zero when a sport is quiet, protecting the scarce
odds-api quota from being drained by noon.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 16:17:55 -04:00
builtbykev 7712f0a442 Heartbeat honesty: SYNC badge reads refreshed_at, not grade-lock updated_at
The "SIGNAL LIVE vs STALE 8h" contradiction was a field mismatch, not a dead
pipeline. updated_at is the grade-LOCK time (advances only on a full snapshot,
5×/day — grades never change in-game, so it is intentionally stable). The
SYNC badge measured the 20-min intraday cadence (expected_interval_s=1200)
against that 5×/day field → structurally guaranteed STALE between slots even
when intraday refreshes lines perfectly.

- snapshotService: full snapshot now seeds refreshed_at at lock time
- intradayRefresh already bumps refreshed_at every ~20 min (unchanged)
- /api/snapshot/summary + GET /:sport now expose refreshed_at (was written to
  Redis but never serialized → no public liveness signal existed)
- LiveLayer SYNC badge measures freshness from refreshed_at (fallback updated_at)

Exposing refreshed_at also gives a public heartbeat probe: it advances every
intraday slot, so pipeline liveness is verifiable without container logs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 16:09:18 -04:00
builtbykev fceb3707b5 Wave 2B: reliable cross-sport headshots via ESPN athlete index
The NBA/WNBA espnId was captured only from espnStatsAdapter (the offline-
Python fallback), unreliable in prod. Add espnAthleteIndex — a pure,
defensive harvester that builds { nameKey -> {espnId, headshotHref} } from
the ESPN schedule->summary/boxscore/leaders/injuries/roster feeds the
pipeline already calls (free, bounded mapLimit, cached, MLB->{}).

snapshotService now fills any player the primary stats-resolve left without
an espnId from this index, and stores a DIRECT headshotHref as headshotUrl
on the enriched grade (the exact URL, never 404s on a constructed path).
Threaded headshotUrl through slateAdapter.buildPlayerStripsFromProps ->
GameCard -> StatStrip -> PlayerAvatar/getHeadshotUrl (direct href wins over
the constructed one). MLB's MLBAM path is untouched. Soccer resolves only
via a direct href; absent -> honest monogram (API_FOOTBALL_KEY remains the
reliable soccer path, unwired).

getGameSummary now also passes through ESPN `rosters` (pre-game lineups
carry id + headshot). Everything graceful: any miss -> absent -> monogram.

Tests: tests/unit/espnHeadshotIndex.test.js (11) — fixture->index, snapshot
merge fallback, direct-href-wins, soccer honest monogram, malformed/cyclic
parse never throws. Full suite 3080 green; web next build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 18:12:31 -04:00
builtbykev 47ada9013c Wave 2A: real player headshots — sport-agnostic id threaded from ingestion
Threads a REAL athlete id from the snapshot's per-player stats resolve (zero
new I/O) → enriched grade → grades:{sport} → slate strip → PlayerAvatar. Real
photo where an id resolves; team-colored monogram (never a gray silhouette,
never a broken image) where it can't. Ids are never fabricated.

Ingestion (Addition 1):
- espnStatsAdapter.getSeasonAverages now RETURNS the resolved ESPN athlete id
  (was discarded) as espnId; non-numeric uid degrades to null.
- playerIntelService surfaces MLBAM playerId (MLB) / ESPN espnId (NBA/WNBA).
- snapshotService captures both per player and stores them on the enriched
  grade beside archetype/team (null when unresolved → monogram path).

Thread → component:
- slateAdapter.buildPlayerStripsFromProps carries playerId/espnId onto each
  strip; StatStrip → PlayerAvatar (accepts both ids; getHeadshotUrl routes by
  sport: MLB→mlbstatic, NBA/WNBA→a.espncdn).
- Silhouette surfaces rewired to PlayerAvatar (branded monogram on null):
  scan search dropdown (guarded MLBAM p.id) + tonight chips, SearchModal,
  HotListPanel, GradeResultCard header. Scan grade card feeds the picked
  MLBAM id through gradeAdapter.
- playerHeadshot pure URL logic extracted to CommonJS playerHeadshotUrl.js
  (unit-testable; the .ts re-exports it). nfl/nhl added to ESPN_SPORT_PATH.

Tests: tests/unit/headshotThread.test.js (per-league URL + id thread + monogram
null path) + extended snapshotService/espnStatsAdapter suites. Full suite
241 suites / 2915 green; next build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 13:18:59 -04:00
builtbykev b6787af191 Wave 1: kill three trust bugs (billing renewal + namesake collision + Desk copy)
FIX 1 — Honest billing renewal render. VYNDR tiers are monthly, so a
`subscription_end` far in the future (the manually-seeded "RENEWS 6/9/2036"
founder row) is a comped/lifetime/seed value, not a renewal. New
web/src/lib/billingDisplay.js `classifyRenewal()` → date | none | lapsed |
unknown (strict Date.parse guard, MONTHLY_RENEWAL_MAX_DAYS=60). Profile page
renders the classified label for both the "Renews" stat and the
cancel-scheduled "Access ends" line — no raw far-future date. No DB row mutated.

FIX 2 — MLB namesake collision (James Wood → "Chicago Cubs"). searchPlayer now
collects ALL exact-nameKey matches instead of first-`.find`; a ≥2 collision
resolves ONLY via a confident teamHint (the prop's game participants, matched
against the cached /teams list with ESPN↔statsapi abbr reconciliation), else
refuses (null) — never guesses. The hint threads getPlayerStats →
resolvePlayerStats → snapshotService (built from each prop's home/away team).
Join invariant: a single-exact player whose team isn't in the hinted game has
its team DROPPED (null), so streaks/rosterlogs never tag a foreign team. Full
teamHint recovery shipped (not just the refuse fallback).

FIX 3 — DeskShowcase headline "A $1M terminal." → deadpan value-showing copy
"Every grade, every alt line, live." Prices ($44.99 / $34.99) unchanged.

Tests: billingDisplay.test.js (7), mlbNamesakeResolve.test.js (12,
disambiguation + join invariant + pure helpers), ds5PricingStates updated to
assert the new headline and no "$1M". Full suite green (237 suites / 2863
tests); web `next build` exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 03:48:58 -04:00
builtbykev 4d2b27d1d0 Session 61 (pre-merge): live-verification fixes from day-one rows
1. [settlement] armed boot line — settlement WAS scheduled (the tick runs
   settleAllOutcomes + settleAllLedgers FIRST at every snapshot slot,
   src/snapshotScheduler.js) but was invisible at boot. Now verifiable
   from logs forever.
2. Null locked_odds root cause (4 day-one rows, all betmgm SB unders):
   genuinely absent in the DB — the first-seen book row carried no juice
   for that side. indexOdds/indexProps now PREFER a book row with both
   sides priced (still a real row, never synthesized). Display was
   correct: absent beats wrong.
3. Verified retry-safe: 'Odds data temporarily unavailable' is the
   odds-api quota gate (oddsService:423) — thrown BEFORE any spend or
   cache write; runSnapshot errors write nothing; the next cron retries
   fresh with PropLine first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 10:16:27 -04:00
builtbykev 2c9cbca7bd Session B (night2): streaks/hot-list engine — producer + form heat + THE LENS
RESURRECT verdict: the Session-23 engine existed, was pure, tested, and
mounted — it starved because every producer was external and unarmed
(tank01-prefetch via n8n, offline Python flow). The snapshot pipeline is
now the producer: each run merges slate players' real game logs (already
fetched for archetypes — zero extra calls) into rosterlogs:{sport}.

- computeFormHeat: hot hitters (7d AVG), hot sluggers (SLG), hot shooters
  (FG%) — correct sum/sum rate math, season baseline else prior stretch,
  min-sample refusals, never extrapolated.
- streakLens: no raw streak renders alone — built-vs opponents, tonight's
  matchup + opposing SP w/ ERA, step-up/step-down difficulty, one-line
  read. Absent context = say less, never invent.
- /api/streaks/:sport: heat merged into the feed, lens applied from cached
  schedule + pitchers (time-bounded, can never hang the route), snapshot
  grade letters joined.
- ACCEPTANCE (live statsapi, real 2026 logs): 32 rows found — Turang
  12-gm on-base, Reynolds 8-gm on-base, Pratt 7-gm on-base + 3-gm
  multi-hit, Meidroth 5-gm on-base, Cortes 5-gm on-base.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 00:39:18 -04:00
builtbykev 4ddfb84232 Session A (night2): AUTONOMY.md + SNAP_TTL 6h→24h P0 fix
The overnight cron gap (03→14 UTC) is 11h; a 6h snapshot TTL meant the
morning settle pass read an expired snapshot and the accuracy loop
silently settled nothing. Ledger (Postgres) settle was immune.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 00:18:01 -04:00
builtbykev d10bb4cce2 Session 59: Addendum + work-order 1.6 + Phase 2 + Phase 3 (2352 tests)
Overnight sprint for the Saturday 10 AM ET deploy gate — day one of the
public ledger record locks against freshly posted lines.

Task A — ledger team/opponent (migration 020, applied at 0 rows):
  populated in both write paths from the real feed; opponent only when the
  player's team matches a game participant (never guessed). Roadmap: Phase
  4.5 WNBA ESPN-boxscore settlement (due ~Jul 24) + Phase 5 per-tier
  calibration logged.

Task B — work-order 1.6 CLOSED (canonical player keys):
  - searchPlayer resolves via nameKey; the old matcher deleted accents
    ("Sanchez" with acute -> "snchez") and substring-guessed onto the WRONG
    player (the mismatched last-10 bug). Ambiguous -> null, never guess.
  - Slate JOIN INVARIANT: a graded prop whose player's real team isn't in
    the game is dropped (TB player can't render under MIL@PIT) — locked by
    tests that fail the suite on regression.
  - grades:{sport} TTL 2h -> 6h (expired between 5h cron gaps — the real
    cause of /team "No active props" for slate players).

Task C — Phase 2 slate UX: tabs are THE filter (URL ?sport=, deep-linkable,
  duplicate legacy tablist removed); cards cap at 6 graded props sorted
  A+->F with ALL N READS in-place expander; waiting states show the real
  next pipeline run ("Grades post ~6:00 PM ET").

Task D — Phase 3 mobile P0: root cause of vanished 390px nav was HIDE_ON
  including '/' (landing had zero navigation) — fixed; html/body overflow-x
  contained; GAME LINES collapses to best-line summary + "N BOOKS" expander
  below 640px; venue drops before time/pitchers ever truncate.

Live verification: raw ESPN today STILL returns the Jun 13 NYK@SA Finals
game without a date pin; the pinned fetch returns 0 games, 0 off-date.

Backend 2327 -> 2352 tests (202 suites), web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 22:24:47 -04:00
builtbykev d296e40cb6 Session 58: Phase 1 — Truth Infrastructure (2327 tests)
ledger_entries is live (migration 019 applied to prod, RLS + NULLS NOT
DISTINCT dedupe verified against the real database). Every grade now
persists, settles against the real result, and carries closing-line value.

- ledgerService: pipeline pre-grade upserts (public model record, user_id
  null, idempotent), closing capture on every snapshot (last write before
  game start = the close), settlement with SIGNED CLV (over = locked -
  closing; beat/faded/flat), 30d model aggregate with the hard n>=20 rule.
- Write paths: snapshotService -> ledger (priority path); Next /api/scan ->
  ledger for authenticated users only (anon never touches the public
  record). Refused reads write nothing and don't burn a scan.
- Honest refusal (work-order 1.5): no projection => insufficient_data,
  grade null, "INSUFFICIENT DATA - no read" UI. The web gradeAdapter no
  longer displays the line as the model projection (the audit's
  model==line / +0% edge degenerate); the card renders absent states.
  projectionFor is sport-aware (l5 -> l20 -> {stat}_per_90 -> xG).
- /ledger: MY READS | MODEL tabs; model header shows hit% + beat-close%
  only at n>=20, else RECORD BUILDING + live pending count. ModelRecord
  deferred-render strip on landing + player hero. CLV + outcome chips,
  revised_from_grade strikethrough (Phase 2.5 ready).
- SYNC (Task 5): thresholds vs SNAPSHOT_EXPECTED_INTERVAL (normal <1.5x,
  amber >=1.5x, STALE red >=3x) via /api/snapshot/summary.
- Phase 2.5 logged in specs/vyndr-roadmap.md (build after Phase 3).
- Data-semantics hardening: strict null-safe numeric parsing everywhere a
  market value is handled (Number(null)===0 would have fabricated lines).

Backend 2309 -> 2327 tests (201 suites), web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 21:34:26 -04:00
builtbykev 2ae8a5697e Session 56: Full audit — PropLine + boxscore + pipeline + sport coverage (2289 tests)
Research (verified against live MLB Stats / ESPN / The Odds APIs):
- specs/propline-audit.md — every stat_type mapped against our 4-layer pipeline;
  real MLB boxscore fields; sport coverage status; pipeline gap analysis.
- specs/vyndr-roadmap.md — priority-ordered Sessions 57–64 + coverage targets.
- scripts/propline-audit.js + specs/audit-data/ (raw capture).

Headline bug: oddsNormalizer mapped batter_rbis → 'rbis' while the whole
grade/feature/outcome chain keys on 'rbi' — every PropLine RBI prop silently
failed to grade AND settle. Fixed (+ regression test).

Phase 4 — wired missing MLB stats end-to-end:
- PropLine MLB markets 6 → 12 (+runs, walks, doubles, earned_runs, hits_allowed,
  outs — same request, no extra quota).
- doubles/outs/triples added to featureCache + outcomeService MLB_LOG_FIELD and
  all three grade whitelists (analyze/scan/validation.py).

Phase 6 — pipeline resilience:
- opsNotify.js: ntfy alerts (never throws, test-disabled). Snapshot success/
  stale/failure alerts; retry-once on hard odds error (not on empty slate).
- Missed-cron watchdog (mostRecentExpectedSlot/isSnapshotOverdue); status probe
  now returns `overdue`.

Coverage truth: MLB is the only end-to-end-live sport; outcome settlement is
MLB-only (WNBA/NBA/soccer never settle) — documented as the #1 roadmap gap.

Backend 2276 → 2289 tests (+13). Web build exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 17:00:29 -04:00
builtbykev 8629021774 Session 54: Audit cleanup — name edges + polish (2255 tests)
P1 name edge cases (BOTH playerName.js copies, kept identical):
- normalizeName strips hyphens (display+key): "Jung-hoo Lee" === "Jung Hoo Lee".
- nameKey strips single-letter MIDDLE tokens: "Josh H Smith" === "Josh Smith"
  (keeps first+last; real middle names + collapsed initials untouched).
- richie -> richard added to NICKNAMES.

P2 polish:
- Team Hub names normalized at the source (teamService.getTeamHub) so
  "J.C. Escarra" renders as "JC Escarra" like the dashboard.
- snapshotService dedup keeps the highest-confidence GRADE but the richest
  DISPLAY (accented "José" over "Jose") so prop rows match the pitcher line.
- correlationWarning names the game: "2 legs from the same game (NYY @ BOS)".

Backend 2246 -> 2255 tests (+9), 194 suites. Web build clean (exit 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 15:45:07 -04:00
builtbykev cdedecf55b Session 52: Coming Soon teaser + infrastructure verification (2239 tests)
Phase 1 — Push-to-Book teaser (feature not live; teaser only):
- StatStrip: "BOOK IT ⟶" per graded prop (hover: "Push-to-Book coming soon").
- GradeResultCard: "PUSH-TO-BOOK · COMING SOON" footer.

Phase 2 — infrastructure verification:
- snapshotScheduler logs armed AND disarmed state (incl SNAPSHOT_CRON) so
  container logs disambiguate off-vs-crashed.
- NEW GET /api/internal/snapshot/status (internal-key gated): cron_armed,
  cron_hours_utc, last_snapshot per sport (gradeCount/deltaCount), redis_keys
  existence map, ticker_count. The post-deploy pipeline health probe.
- Finding: Redis AOF/RDB persistence is a server-side (Coolify) config the app
  can't set/verify — documented.

Phase 3 — delta pipeline (verified sound, no fix needed):
- runSnapshot already rotates :latest->:previous and diffs locked lines; added
  opt-in SNAPSHOT_DEBUG=1 [deltas] log + a trace test asserting :previous is
  preserved verbatim and the delta math is correct.

Backend 2234 -> 2239 tests (+5), 192 suites. Web build clean (exit 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 13:55:39 -04:00
builtbykev 91b03c4044 Session 48: Name normalization at every layer + usage field (2156 tests)
Trace-first: the normalizer functions were correct (S47) but raw names still
flowed through paths that skipped them. Fixed each leaking path.

- 2a (source chokepoint): snapshotService.runSnapshot normalizes each grade's
  player to the de-dotted display AND dedupes to one grade per nameKey|stat
  (highest confidence) before writing grades:{sport} + snapshot:latest. Every
  consumer (GameCard, Explore, leaders, profile) now gets clean merged names.
- 2b: buildPlayerStripsFromProps dedupes a player's props by stat (graded >
  awaiting) → one row per stat (kills "Ks 5.5 AND Ks 3.5" variant dupes).
- 2c: scan tonightsPlayers grid groups by nameKey, displays normalized name.
- 3: profile VYNDR INTELLIGENCE "+0%"/"—" was buildIntel's defaults (separate
  from the grade card's buildIntelFields, which already works). resolvePlayerStats
  now attaches real usage (AB/G) + rest (B2B/Xd); buildIntel renders them; REST
  default is now "—".

Backend 2149 -> 2156 tests (+7), 181 suites. Web build clean (exit 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 02:42:13 -04:00
builtbykev 78db55d499 Session 47: Name normalization + grade intel + ticker polish (2149 tests)
- Name normalization completed: NICKNAMES table (Matt↔Matthew, Mike↔Michael...)
  resolved in nameKey, parenthetical team-tag strip "(STL)", verified accent-fold
  (Iván/Ivan, José/Jose). Slate strip now DISPLAYS the normalized de-dotted name
  ("AJ Ewing" not "A.J. Ewing") via buildPlayerStripsFromProps.
- Complete MLB VYNDR INTELLIGENCE: mlbGameLogFeatures derives rest_days (days off
  between latest games; 0=B2B) + ab_per_game (usage). buildIntelFields renders
  usage as "X AB/G", rest as B2B/Xd, matchup from bvp_advantage fallback.
- Ticker SCAN dedup: pushTickerItems keeps one SCAN per sport (sport field or
  text-prefix parse for legacy); MOVE/GRADE preserved; cap 50.
- BOMBER threshold prorated for mid-season (hr>=15 strong / >=10 mod) so June
  sluggers classify BOMBER not FLEX/DRIVER.

Backend 2122 -> 2149 tests (+27), 179 suites. Web build clean (exit 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 01:45:36 -04:00
builtbykev c8fc9f577e Session 46: Grade card intel + name normalization + pitchers (2122 tests)
Three focused P1 fixes on the Session-45 snapshot model.

- Grade card intel ROOT CAUSE: gameLogService is NBA/WNBA-only (offline Python),
  so MLB props never got l5_avg/l20_avg and buildIntelFields returned {}. Wired
  MLB game logs into featureCache.gameLogFeatures via mlbStatsAdapter.getPlayerStats
  (pure mlbGameLogFeatures + MLB stat_type->field map). buildIntelFields gained
  playerStats/projection fallbacks for partial intel.
- Player name normalization: src/utils/playerName.js (+ web/src/lib copy):
  normalizeName -> {display,key}. Strips periods, de-dots suffix, accent-folds
  the key. Applied in snapshotService grouping, slateAdapter grade index +
  player-strip merge (variants collapse, longest name shown), and
  playerIntelService. "A.J. Ewing"/"AJ Ewing" + "Jazz Chisholm"/"Jr." now merge.
- MLB starting pitchers: new GET /api/schedule/:sport/pitchers (probablePitchers
  service wrapping mlbStatsAdapter.getScheduleWithPitchers + best-effort ERA).
  Slate fetches it, builds a team->pitcher map (full name + mascot match),
  attaches pitchers to MLB GameCardData. + Next proxy.

Backend 2100 -> 2122 tests (+22), 176 suites. Web build clean (exit 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 23:56:26 -04:00
builtbykev f8b120c0aa Session 45: Snapshot pipeline + GameCard swap + live ticker (2100 tests)
The on-demand "Read" grade model is RETIRED. A scheduled pipeline pre-grades the
slate, locks grades to the line, tracks movement; the dashboard shows them already
there. Orchestrates existing services — nothing rebuilt.

- snapshotService.runSnapshot(sport): getOdds → gradeAndCacheSlate → classify
  archetype per player → lock gradedAt → line deltas vs previous snapshot → write
  snapshot:{sport}:latest/previous + grades:{sport} → ticker events. Fully
  injectable, zero-network unit tests. runAllSnapshots = cron entrypoint.
- Internal trigger POST /api/internal/snapshot/:sport + /all (requireInternalAuth).
  In-process cron (SNAPSHOT_CRON=1, UTC 14,19,22,1,3) in server.js, no new dep.
- Public reads: GET /api/snapshot/:sport (cache-only) + GET /api/ticker (merges
  TICKER_MANUAL pins) + Next proxies.
- GameCard swap: live Slate renders vyndr/GameCard (legacy kept for types only),
  overlays locked grades onto game props → player name once + archetype badge +
  "Graded Xh ago at -115 · Current 2.5 · ▲ TOWARD +1.0". Ungraded → "Awaiting next
  scan", NO Read button. On-demand onGrade flow deleted.
- Ticker polls /api/ticker every 30s, graceful fallback to hardcoded items.
- NBA/WNBA: espnStatsAdapter free fallback (defensive parse → found:false on shape
  mismatch) wired into resolvePlayerStats after the offline Python service.

Env: PROPLINE_API_KEY_1/2/3, VYNDR_INTERNAL_KEY, SNAPSHOT_CRON=1, TICKER_MANUAL.
Backend 2061 -> 2100 tests (+39), 173 suites. Web build clean (exit 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 21:34:29 -04:00