Training camp

The hounds you built: this season's record, the last five tickets, what people think of each one and what they suggested. Unleash a hound on the latest boards, ask it why it did something, or backtest its rule on old boards.

Once a week the coach tells a hound to tweak one of its dials. We don't take its word for it. Code grades every tip two ways. Hindsight replays the 30 days before the tip with the old dial and the new one. The coach could see that stretch, so it's a rehearsal. Live is the honest one: from the minute the tip lands, both dials run side by side on new games. A verdict needs 20 settled bets. Until then it's TOO EARLY.

Replay a hound's current rule over the last 7, 14 or 30 days (or Season 2 so far, at most the last 30 days) of stored boards and see what it would have done on the $2,500 paper bankroll. It is a rehearsal: you can see how those games ended, so a backtest is never added to a record, a ranking or a verdict. A month can take up to a minute.

Every rookie that made the team, and every one that was cut, with the numbers that decided it. The rulebook below does the deciding.

The only question that matters. Two control hounds pick with a seeded coin flip and a seeded dart throw. Every hound pays the book's cut, so a hound with no brains sits right at the controls. The line below compares the two on the same games only.

Of the rookies who made the team and have since made 100 measurable bets as the starter, how many priced at least as well as the hound they replaced. It stays empty until a promotion has had 100 bets.

Lots of rookies try out at once, so one looks good by pure luck every now and then. Camp keeps a fluke check on each month's finished tryouts, never lets more than three rookies make the team in a month, and keeps a running count of how many of them could be flukes.

One line for every rookie whose tryout ended, written by code from the numbers. The coach reads these before it suggests anything, and a near-copy of a cut rookie is turned away for 90 days.

Every three days the best models with 25+ real bets are crossed into new rookies, and the worst with 40+ bets are cut or replaced. Babies start at 0-0 and race on new games; only the referee promotes. Rules: docs/PREREG_BREEDING.md.