The reasoning.
And its limits.

As of means
as of.

The NFL decision line is 24 hours before kickoff. A pending state means the receipt is awaited; it does not imply a lean. A pregame recorded output becomes frozen history at kickoff, or when a usable kickoff clock is missing.

The input capture time and decision as-of time stay beside the record. A later quote does not rewrite the original input snapshot. An NFL board older than three hours is stale, and its picks are not presented as current.

NCAAF records preserve their source observation and publication times; the NFL timing rule does not establish their freshness. Saved records and the preview’s SIM boards are explicitly labeled. Freshly retrieving an old artifact does not make its contents current.

Say why.

Producer reason text is preserved. The currently emitted NFL abstain reasons are:

• “The schedule carried no usable kickoff clock.”
• “The scoring pass ran after kickoff, so no decision was recorded.”
• “A retry after kickoff found no matching earlier record, so nothing was recorded.”

For a schedule conflict: “The schedule changed after the decision froze; the frozen record is withheld.” An unknown code is identified as unknown, without inventing a reason.

Only count
what is graded.

The separate MLB aggregate archive counts only the published eligible cohort: graded records equal eligible records and wins plus losses. Historical quarantine is separate. Its reason counts overlap, so they are never summed. Voided or postponed exclusions do not identify individual game dispositions in this aggregate feed. Coverage abstentions on the forecast board remain separate from graded performance.

A win rate needs eligible graded observations. Flat-one-stake source ROI needs eligible priced observations and uses the source’s profit divided by that priced count. Zero denominators mean unavailable, never 0% performance. Individual grades, voids, dated performance and settlement histories are not reconstructed from team names or dates.

In that MLB archive, published output is recorded with freshness unverified. The model generation time, feed generation time and retrieval time are separate. The game file becomes historical after its recorded start; elapsed time alone never establishes a final result. Model version, serving receipt and captured spread, total, moneyline, book and line timestamp are unavailable when absent. An artifact digest is not a model receipt. Stable game addresses retrieve only the selected feed, not an archive.

The separate MLB archive price snapshot has no canonical game identity, quote observation time or timezone on event times. It stays unverified and separate from the source odds comparison. No current best-price rank, pick join or model edge is inferred from these individual prices.

The MLB and NFL model-record feeds do not currently supply individual settlements. NCAAF records can carry outcomes bound to the exact decision; the saved September 10, 2026 snapshot contains four such outcomes. They stay separate from unsettled predictions and abstains. A score alone does not grade a model record.

The current model feed supplies no aggregate evaluation, so its record pages do not infer model-quality or economic performance summaries. Any descriptive evaluation in a saved snapshot applies only to that snapshot and its stated sample, not to the current board.

We do not turn a missing price into zero, an incomplete feed into a prediction, or an illustrative example into a track record.