0.5. The units of exposure the framework carries into tonight's slate. Two quarter-stake bets, both fired by the Issue 49 recalibration rule that started as a provisional rule change six days ago and has its first live application tonight.
The recalibration reminder. The rule fires when the arc card labels a spread as STRONG LEAN with edge 5-plus points AND the bot's picks file did not publish the pick as HIGH-confidence. Same rule for STRONG UNDER with 8-plus edge. Sizing is quarter stake by default, provisional for 15 observations, then evaluated.
Tonight is application one and two of the rule.
Portland at Connecticut. Arc card has STRONG LEAN POR plus 1.4 (Portland getting 1.4 points on the road), edge plus 9.96. That is a large edge — the model has Portland favored by more than 8 points at neutral and the market has them getting 1.4 as underdogs. Bot did not publish HIGH (n_picks equals 0 tonight), likely because of the auto-demote filters on Portland-related picks that ship in the model repo's daily_picks logic. The arc card label survived the demote and shows a real edge.
Agent alignment check. Agent has POR Q4 plus 3.40 HIGH — one HIGH signal aligned with the pick direction. The SGP correlation reads "Close game, POR closes." Not a dominant pattern but the direction lines up. Projected quarter totals add to 162.3 (well UNDER the market's 167.7 line, aligned with the MODEST UNDER card signal — though we do not size MODEST tier).
The injury context. Connecticut is missing Saniya Rivers, Ashlon Jackson, Aneesah Morrow, and Brittney Griner. Four rotation players Out. Portland is missing Sarah Ashlee Barker (Day-To-Day), Jordan Harrison (Out), Sania Feagin (Out). Three players. Both rosters thinned but Connecticut's absences hit the offensive core (Griner is the primary interior scorer).
Quarter stake on POR plus 1.4 at Connecticut per the recalibrated rule.
Washington at Toronto. Arc card has PASS spread (model has TOR plus 0.86 at neutral, market has TOR minus 1.86 — model and market roughly agree, no meaningful edge). Card has STRONG LEAN UNDER 171.3, edge minus 10.76.
Agent alignment check on the total. Projected quarter totals add to 167.6. That is 3.7 points UNDER the market line — well within the alignment zone (the Issue 40 rule pauses only when the agent projects OVER by 3-plus points; tonight the agent is UNDER by 3.7). The under signal is clean.
Injury context favors the under. Toronto is missing Brittney Sykes, Temi Fagbenle, and Kiki Rice — the three players whose absences most compress offensive volume for the Tempo. Washington is missing Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, which is a smaller absence but still trims their scoring bench.
Quarter stake on UNDER 171.3 (WAS at TOR) per the recalibrated rule.
Tonight's recommended action.
QUARTER STAKE: POR plus 1.4 at Connecticut. First live application of the Issue 49 non-HIGH STRONG LEAN rule.
QUARTER STAKE: UNDER 171.3 (WAS at TOR). Aligned agent projection under the line, injury structure compresses scoring.
PASS: WAS at TOR spread (model and market agree, no edge).
PASS: POR at CON total (MODEST tier).
Total exposure: 0.5 units across two bets. Expected value if the recalibrated rule performs at the ~60 percent rate the recent sample suggests: approximately plus 0.1 units per bet, or plus 0.2 units for the slate. Small but positive.
Yesterday's slate the framework passed on.
Both games. LAS at ATL was PASS spread and STRONG UNDER 180.5. UNDER lost — game went 193, cleared OVER by 12.5. PHO at MIN was PASS spread (large edge but PASS-labeled) and MODEST UNDER 169.6. UNDER lost — game went 204, cleared OVER by 34.
Both UNDER losses would have been additional damage if we had sized. The tier discipline (MODEST UNDERs PASS, STRONG UNDER 180.5 was above the 8-point edge threshold for quarter stake but the agent had projected 187 which exceeds the OVER pause threshold — so it would have been a PASS anyway per Issue 40 rule). The framework's totals-side filters continue to save more than they cost.
Cumulative per the grader through Monday.
Spread STRONG: 40-37 (51.9 percent, minus 0.82 percent ROI). Up four wins from last check as the July 9-12 stretch gets fully counted. Total STRONG: 38-46 (45.2 percent, minus 13.64 percent ROI). Down badly this week. Two consecutive slates with STRONG UNDERs blowing the OVER by 15-plus points. The tier discipline needs to hold.
The bot's HIGH-confidence-published-picks subset (spot check): 5-2 (71 percent) over the last four days. The HIGH tier is where the edge lives.
Tempo home tonight against Washington. Jordan has the Tempo Report with the shorthanded-lineup preview. The framework does not size the Tempo spread (no edge). The framework does size the UNDER on the same game per the recalibrated rule.
Talk tomorrow morning.
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