buildRatings samples each WC team's rating along the full walk (yearly
historically, monthly since 2022) into elohistory.json (~72KB, 48
teams). Team pages plot it as a clean SVG line with year and rating
gridlines — Germany's century, 1908 → today, in one glance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validated on the strict 2018-2022 window and confirmed on the untouched
2022-2026 test set (RPS 0.1703 vs 0.1721 over 4,448 matches):
- the Elo member now blends 30% of a 3x-faster Elo walk, so recent
results move ratings much harder
- ensemble weight shifts from 75/25 toward Elo to 45/55 toward the
time-decayed Team-DC member — the recent-form model now leads
- Team-DC refits nightly (and at boot) on the 15-year window plus every
finished 2026 match, via a new committed-at-build dcTrain.json
(server-only, excluded from the PWA precache)
- a recent-form goal multiplier was also tested and did NOT validate;
it ships disabled, and backtest.json records the whole decision
buildBacktest.ts grew the experiment harness: wider xi/k grids, the
fast-Elo and form variants, a pre-registered ship bar (>=0.0005
validation RPS), and a 7-day refit-cadence check. Older ratings.json
files still work — all new model fields are optional with golden
regression coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- docs/V3-GIGA-PLAN.md: the v3 plan (data lake to 7+GB, GIGA ensemble, scoreboard,
UI clarity) with the honest reframe: perfect accuracy = perfect calibration;
'beat the betting sites' = a live public head-to-head, scored with proper rules.
- src/lib/odds.ts: American-ml → decimal, de-vig (normalize away the margin),
overround; 3 vitest cases incl. tonight's real opening lines.
- ESPN core odds adapter (server/src/ingest/espnOdds.ts): captures DraftKings
1X2 moneylines + O/U + spread per fixture; follows $ref pointer items.
- odds_history table (insert-if-changed → clean line-movement history);
scheduler odds sweep every 3h over a 14-day horizon, first sweep at boot;
/api/odds + /api/odds/:num. Odds are a benchmark ONLY — never a model input.
- Boot speed-up: fixture↔event mapping skips dates already fully mapped.
- Verified: 54 fixtures captured with real moneylines locally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- scripts/buildBacktest.ts: honest walk-forward validation — params fit on
pre-2018 internationals, tested out-of-sample on 7,988 matches (2018-2026)
predicting each game from prior data only. Proper scoring (Brier/log-loss/RPS/
accuracy) vs uniform / base-rate / Elo-only baselines + a calibration analysis
(reliability bins + ECE). Results: 60% accuracy, RPS 0.171 (beats all
baselines), ECE 0.01 (excellent calibration).
- Methodology page (/methodology): plain-language model walkthrough, the backtest
scorecard, a custom-SVG reliability diagram, and honest limits. Transparency is
the differentiator — no market odds, no overclaiming.
- ReliabilityDiagram component; 'Model' nav entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Persistence via Node's built-in node:sqlite (zero native deps) on a Docker
volume: response cache, source health, fixture↔provider id map, per-fixture
enrichment, ingest log. Runtime bumped to node:24-slim + --experimental-sqlite.
- Resilient fetcher: DB cache + per-source rate-limit + jittered backoff +
circuit-breaker (blocked sources trip + skip; UI reads DB, never breaks).
- ESPN hidden API as the PRIMARY rich source (works from the VPS where SofaScore
403s): scoreboard (live scores w/ clock) + summary (venue, H2H, recent form,
lineups, team stats). football-data / SofaScore are fallbacks.
- Scheduler: maps all 72 group fixtures to ESPN event ids, polls live on a
dynamic cadence, enriches imminent fixtures into match_ext. /api/sources/health.
- Verified: DB populates (real H2H + form for opening matches), 22 tests pass,
Docker image runs node:sqlite on the volume and persists across restart.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- buildStatsbombViz.ts: processes the 2022 WC Final (Argentina 3-3 France) from
StatsBomb open data → shots+xG, cumulative xG race, starting-XI pass networks,
totals, shootout result. Output committed (11KB) to avoid build-time fetch
- Custom SVG viz (no chart lib): reusable Pitch (StatsBomb 120x80 coords),
ShotMap (xG-sized dots, teams attacking opposite goals), XgRace (stepped
cumulative xG with goal markers, d3-scale), PassNetwork (nodes ∝ involvement,
links ∝ pass volume)
- StoryPage: narrative with hero scoreline, by-the-numbers bars, and the three
visualizations with explanatory copy
- Verified in browser: all three render correctly, no console errors
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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