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STOPPED at the Part 1 gate. Nothing rebuilt, no grade changed, no cutover. THE FINDING: grading on p_win vs fair_prob does not work. All three candidate edge formulations correlate NEGATIVELY with outcomes, on both sports, overall, and in both time splits (n=432 decided rows carrying p_win AND fair_prob_lock): ALL n=432 champ -0.0016 p_win ALONE +0.1221 additive -0.0615 ratio -0.1161 logodds -0.0438 MLB n=240 champ +0.0984 p_win ALONE +0.2278 additive -0.0336 ratio -0.1350 logodds -0.0124 WNBA n=192 champ -0.1143 p_win ALONE -0.0842 additive -0.1326 ratio -0.1281 logodds -0.1243 Subtracting the market's lock-time fair probability destroys and inverts the signal. The plain reading: props where the model most disagrees with the market are LESS likely to hit — the market is better than the model, so "edge vs market" is anti-predictive here, while the raw probability retains some skill alone. WHAT DOES CARRY SIGNAL: p_win alone, MLB only, and it is modest. Time-forward split — TRAIN (07-21..07-26, n=120) r=0.2770; HOLDOUT (07-26..07-30, n=120) r=0.1647, with the additive edge negative in BOTH halves. So p_win survives forward validation directionally but the holdout is NOT significant (t~1.81, p~0.07). Suggestive, not proven. WNBA MUST ABSTAIN: every measure negative including p_win itself (-0.084). Forcing one threshold across both sports would make a coin-flip sport look sharp, which the order forbids. LOOKAHEAD GUARD SATISFIED: fair_prob_lock is the lock-time field, populated on 432 decided rows, range 0.145-0.713. closing_prob (415 rows) is the CLOSE and was NOT used in any correlation — using it would have manufactured a correlation. SAMPLE REALITY: 1103 decided rows but only 432 carry both instrument fields, so a per-sport train/holdout split leaves ~120 per half — enough to show direction, not to certify a letter ladder. I did not tune toward a win: three pre-registered candidates were tested and all three failed; picking a fourth because the first three lost is the overfitting the order guards against. Recommended instead: grade MLB on p_win alone with WNBA abstaining and label it modest/accruing (A-RATED hold stays); or wait ~6 weeks for n~500 MLB; or investigate WHY the market-relative edge inverts, which is the more valuable question. Both queries committed at scripts/grade-correlation-proof.sql so no number here has to be taken on trust. Working settlement untouched; dead resolve endpoint not wired. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJs13VsyiSKYQP6rj3NNmc