How a market gets onto Today’s Board.

Pipeline

1. Ingest the day's real events for the covered sports.
2. Exclude simulated, virtual and unverifiable events.
3. Collect pre-match markets and outcomes from the recorded source.
4. Screen for initial candidates.
5. Deep-research the candidates that remain.
6. Confirm key facts against official and primary sources.
7. Document the recorded odds, source, region and observation time.
8. Define the minimum odds at which the position still qualifies.
9. Stress the case under less favourable assumptions.
10. Run the red-team review.
11. Decide: position, pass or watchlist.
12. Lock the position record before the event.
13. Publish to Today's Board and the Ledger.
14. Monitor odds, availability and material news while active.
15. Append updates and status changes; never rewrite.
16. Record the result and the closing odds after the event.
17. Compute unit P&L and same-line closing-line value.
18. Publish daily and weekly audits once official positions settle.

Source hierarchy

TIER 1 · OFFICIAL, then TIER 2 · TRUSTED LOCAL, then TIER 3 · SECONDARY, then TIER 4 · DISCOVERY. Higher tiers override lower tiers. A single unconfirmed report never carries a position on its own.

Odds layers

Recorded odds are the odds observed from the named source when the position was published, with region and observation time. Minimum odds are the lowest odds at which the position still meets the published research threshold. A market reference, where recorded, is a neutral comparison line and not a recommendation.

Coverage definitions

Reviewed counts appear publicly only when a coverage run for that board day is on record. Without a logged run, no reviewed, passed or candidate numbers are shown.

Status definitions

OPEN

The available odds are still at or above the minimum odds.

CLOSED · ODDS

The available odds have fallen below the minimum odds. The research stays on record, but the position no longer meets its threshold.

MARKET UNAVAILABLE

The market is no longer listed at the recorded source. The research stays on record.

REVIEW

New material information is being evaluated against the original case.

NO NEW ENTRY

New information has materially weakened the original case. The position no longer stands as current research.

REVEALED

A previously hidden position is now public.

POSTPONED

The event was postponed. The result follows the published market rules.

SUSPENDED

The market is suspended at the recorded source.

UNMONITORED

Odds, availability and news were not monitored for this record after publication.

SETTLEMENT REVIEW

The event has finished. The result and closing odds are being checked.

SETTLED

The result and closing-odds comparison are published.

VOID

The position was voided under the market rules. Unit P&L is zero.

Record classes

OFFICIAL records pass the full pipeline with documented odds evidence and a cryptographic commitment; only they form the public record, which starts with the public beta. Research from the build phase before launch is development history and is not part of the public record. DEMO records are illustrative and never appear in the public beta.

Version history

Methodology v1.0, 3 September 2026. Later versions are published here and referenced on every record they apply to.

How a locked record is protected against later changes is described under Verification.