THE LEDGER

The whole record.
Including what didn't work.

Every signal we track, every program we have registered, and the dated log of what was claimed and what came back. The raw file is at the bottom if you would rather check it yourself than take our word for it.

12
signals tracked
4,913
positions graded
40
programs open
387
hypotheses tested
RELIEVER_COLD_FIRST
+17.8%n=42
VELO_DROP
+15.8%n=132
TRAILING_LATE
+10.4%n=191
SPIN_VS_AVG
+6%n=204
PITCH_COUNT_85
+2.4%n=41
COMMAND_LOSS
+1.6%n=314
HARD_CONTACT
+1%n=521
THIRD_TIME_THROUGH
+0.6%n=113
BIG_INNING
-7%n=83
HC_OVER2
-7.4%n=136
HC_OVER1
-8.2%n=136
VELO_VS_AVG
-13.9%n=57
42%BREAKEVEN+42%

Graduation bar: ROI at or above 6 percent on a sample of at least 40 settled bets. Whiskers are 90 percent confidence intervals on return.

Ranked by return at the prices we actually got, losers included. Bars are the point estimate; whiskers are the 90% confidence interval. 4 clear the capital bar of ROI ≥ 6% on n ≥ 40, and 1 have an interval that clears breakeven entirely. A strong return on a small sample is a hypothesis, not a result — printing the interval is the difference between the two.

REASONS NOT TO JOIN

Everything we have failed to solve, in public.

Our NBA model does not beat the closing line.

1,070 games, walk-forward. Our error was worse than the market's in both directions and simulated spreads returned −6.2%. Well calibrated with no edge — those are different things. NBA therefore sizes nothing.

Next: lineup-derived ratings from play-by-play, after roster-level availability adjustment failed structurally.

6 of our 13 live rules are flagged for removal.

Rules currently in production that the forward record has stopped supporting. They stay visible, with their sample and their return, until the nightly re-grade removes them.

Next: whether the decay is the class or the entry window — the rules were re-timed and the samples are still accruing.

Basketball and football are, so far, a wall.

0 of 387 hypotheses swept across the CBB, NBA, CFB and NFL corpora survived multiple-testing correction. The MLB signal book is a separate program with signals that do pay; these sweeps are the expansion effort.

Next: market-structure programs rather than outcome prediction — the 40 open registrations lean toward pricing behaviour, not who wins.

Check it yourself.

Every program we have registered — open and graded — as one file, regenerated nightly by the same script that builds this page.

Download 59 programs (JSON) ↓

Prefer the write-up? The working paper goes through the method and the results in full.