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Backup commit of uncommitted working-tree state found during Legion recon (Tony resurrection, STEP 0). This work existed only on the laptop disk. - chain shadow accrual + probe script (038_chain_shadow.sql) - WNBA possession feed: ESPN adapter, usage service, verify script (039_wnba_player_game.sql) - baseball chain - retention/snapshot service updates, tableKeys, matchupKeys - specs: chain-v1, wnba-possession-feed, wnba-source-survey - unit tests for the above Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QnvJAkC3h5QGmb6dipoiWn
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# WNBA v1 — the possession / usage feed
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**Status:** DATA INFRA ONLY. No chainFn, no archetype wiring, no shadow, nothing served.
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**Date:** 2026-08-13
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**Consumer it exists for:** the chain's basketball `chainFn`
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(`usage × possessions × efficiency`), which cannot be written without it.
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---
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## 1. Phase 1 — the source, established before any plumbing
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### Candidates and the choice
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| candidate | verdict |
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| Python `nba_api` service (WNBA endpoints) | **Rejected as a dependency.** The service is offline in production; a feed we cannot fetch is not a feed. |
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| ESPN site API (`site.api.espn.com/.../basketball/wnba`) | **Chosen.** Free, no auth, already the host for WNBA schedules, box scores and live tracking. |
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### What it actually returns — verified live, 2026-08-13
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`summary?event={id}` → `boxscore.players[].statistics[0]`:
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```
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keys: minutes, points, fieldGoalsMade-fieldGoalsAttempted,
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threePointFieldGoalsMade-threePointFieldGoalsAttempted,
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freeThrowsMade-freeThrowsAttempted, rebounds, assists, turnovers,
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steals, blocks, offensiveRebounds, defensiveRebounds, fouls, plusMinus
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Breanna Stewart: ['30','19','8-21','1-5','2-2','7','5','0','1','0','2','5','2','-2']
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```
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plus `starter` / `didNotPlay` / `ejected` per athlete, and `boxscore.teams[]` with
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team totals (`fieldGoalsMade-fieldGoalsAttempted`, `freeThrowsMade-freeThrowsAttempted`,
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`totalTurnovers`, `offensiveRebounds`). Team minutes sum to 200 in regulation
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(5 × 40), so overtime enters through the same sum. Play-by-play is also present
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(378 plays on the sampled game) but is not needed — the box identities suffice.
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### chainFn inputs: delivered, derived, or missing
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| chainFn input | status | how |
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| **minutes** | **SERVED** | `minutes` per player |
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| **usage rate** | **DERIVED (exact)** | `100·((FGA+0.44·FTA+TOV)·(TmMIN/5)) / (MIN·(TmFGA+0.44·TmFTA+TmTOV))` |
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| **possessions** | **DERIVED (exact)** | `FGA − OREB + TOV + 0.44·FTA` |
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| **pace** | **DERIVED (exact)** | `possessions × 40 / (TmMIN/5)` |
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| **efficiency** | **DERIVED (exact)** | TS% `PTS/(2(FGA+0.44·FTA))`, eFG% `(FGM+0.5·FG3M)/FGA` |
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| **game state** (redistribute hook) | **SERVED** | `starter`, team/opp score → `final_margin` |
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| shot location / zone | **MISSING** | not in the box score; not a chainFn input today |
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| on/off, lineup combinations | **MISSING** | would need play-by-play reconstruction |
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| opponent defensive rating | **MISSING** | derivable later from the same rows (each game is also the opponent's) |
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**"Derived" is not "proxied", and the distinction is load-bearing.** ESPN does not
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serve a usage rate, a possession count or a pace figure — it serves their
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components, and these are the standard identities recomputed from counted events.
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The only estimated term anywhere is the **0.44 free-throw-trip coefficient**,
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which is the field-standard value.
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### Point-in-time capability
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**Native. No `statcast_history`-style split is needed, and this is a design
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choice made at line one rather than a retrofit.**
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`statcast_aggregates` had to grow a history twin because it stores a season
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aggregate upserted in place, destroying every prior version — which is why the
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first skill backtest was honest only by accident. This stores **per-game rows**.
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A completed box score never changes, so an as-of profile is
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`WHERE game_date < asOf`: a filter over immutable facts. Nothing is overwritten,
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so there is nothing to retain a history *of*.
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**Strictly `<`, never `<=`.** A game on the as-of date may have tipped after
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grade time; counting it leaks the evening being predicted into the prediction.
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Same rule as `snapshotSettlementService.isPreGame`.
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---
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## 2. Phase 2 — the feed
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**`wnba_player_game`** (migration 039). Key `(game_id, source_id)`, registered in
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`src/utils/tableKeys.js`, so `safePaginate` can walk it. Indexed
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`(sport, player_key, game_date DESC)` — every read is "this player, before this
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date".
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Scoped to the chainFn's inputs plus the redistribute game-state. **Not a general
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WNBA stats dump** — `closing_captures` grew to 4.2M rows of something nothing
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read, and the lesson is to ingest for a named consumer or not at all.
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Every derived rate is stored **alongside its components**, so it is re-derivable
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and checkable rather than an unfalsifiable number — the `factorFreeze` rule
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applied to a feed.
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### Coverage — full live season, measured
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```
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rows 5,085 games 256 players 241
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teams 15 days 88 errors 0
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date range 2026-05-01 .. 2026-08-12
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FIELD COVERAGE
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minutes 5085/5085 starter 5085/5085
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usage_rate 5072/5085 final_margin 5085/5085
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team_possessions 5085/5085 ts_pct 4821/5085
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team_pace 5085/5085 efg_pct 4772/5085
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```
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The `ts_pct` / `efg_pct` gaps are **correct refusals, not missing data**: a
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player with zero field-goal and free-throw attempts has no true-shooting
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percentage, and returning 0 would assert he shot and missed.
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### Two contaminating games found and excluded
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The season pull surfaced two games that are **not league games**:
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- `2026-05-02` — an exhibition against **Nigeria** (`NIGER` vs `IND`)
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- `2026-07-25` — the **All-Star game** (`SPO` vs `COOP`)
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Their usage and pace context is meaningless for a forward projection (an
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All-Star game has no defence to speak of), and leaving them in would pollute
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every profile spanning those dates.
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The filter reads **ESPN's own `/teams` endpoint** rather than a hardcoded
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fifteen — an expansion franchise is admitted the day the league adds it, and
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this league has expanded twice in three years. An **empty** teams response is
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treated as unknown membership and filters nothing, because a failed feed
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degrading to an empty index looks exactly like an honest absence (the
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`fielding_oaa` lesson).
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---
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## 3. Phase 3 — verification, on real data through the real functions
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`scripts/wnba-feed-verify.js` drives the production parsers over the live season
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and then calls `wnbaUsageService.profileAsOf` against those rows. It exercises
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the shipped code, not a restatement of it.
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### The derivation, checkable by hand
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```
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Laura Juskaite (TOR) 2026-05-01
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MIN 28 FGA 10 FTA 2 TOV 3 PTS 6
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team: MIN 200 FGA 68 FTA 16 TOV 11 OREB 7
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possessions stored 79.04 recomputed 79.040
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usage_rate stored 23.046 recomputed 23.046
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```
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### The as-of read
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```
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player: Natasha Howard — 36 games on record
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asOf 2026-05-12 REFUSED (2 games precede — under the 3-game floor)
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asOf 2026-06-24 games=18 (expected 18) usage 24.826 min/g 28.11 pace 82.683 TS 0.5998
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asOf 2026-08-12 games=35 (expected 35) usage 22.057 min/g 28.51 pace 82.275 TS 0.6010
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asOf 2026-12-31 games=36 (expected 36) usage 22.027 min/g 28.50 pace 82.241 TS 0.6042
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STRICT CUTOFF — a game ON the as-of date is EXCLUDED (correct)
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THIN HISTORY — asOf before his first game returns null (refused, correct)
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```
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The profile **moves with the date** (24.8 usage in June, 22.1 by August), which
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is the property that makes it a point-in-time read rather than a season number
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wearing a date.
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### Two refusals that are features
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- **Thin history ⇒ `null`, never a league-average player.** Usage feeds the
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chain's opportunity term directly; a stand-in would assert a usage rate about
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someone never observed. Same discipline as `platoonSeverity`'s 60-PA floor.
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- **Usage is MINUTES-WEIGHTED, not a flat mean across games.** The lineup-K-rate
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lesson: an unweighted aggregate counts a 6-minute cameo like a 34-minute start,
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and unweighted actively *hurt* that model.
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---
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## 4. Not done, and not claimed
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- **No chainFn.** Basketball's `usage × possessions × efficiency` is the next
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order. This order stops at the feed.
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- **No archetype wiring, no shadow, no serving.** Nothing reads this table yet.
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- **MLB untouched.** A test asserts `chainShadow.js`, `baseballChain.js` and
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`analyzeViaEngine1.js` contain no reference to the WNBA feed.
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- `CALIBRATION_DEPLOYED` still `[]`; A8 accrual, the chain's MLB shadow and the
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served grade are untouched.
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---
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## 5. ⛔ Blocked: the table is NOT created and NOT ingested
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`SUPABASE_DB_PASSWORD` in the local `.env` **fails authentication** against the
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pooler (`aws-1-us-east-1...` → `password authentication failed for user
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"postgres"`), and the direct host resolves IPv6-only, which is unreachable from
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this WSL2 environment. The transposed project ref already documented in
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CLAUDE.md is the likely cause.
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So:
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- **migration 039 is written and unapplied**
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- **`ingestRange` is written and has never written a row**
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- Everything in §2's coverage and §3's verification was measured by running the
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real parsers and the real as-of read over the live season **in memory**. The
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parse, the derivations and the as-of logic are verified on real data; the
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**database round-trip is not**.
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That distinction is stated rather than glossed: a feed that has never been
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written is not a feed yet.
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**Also still outstanding: migration 038 (`model_snapshots.chain_shadow`)** from
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the chain orders, for the same reason.
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