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Summary

The ranked quality filter now means ranked in the top division's poll, so a nationally ranked FCS team playing an unranked FBS team no longer qualifies its game for a non-favorite slot. The broadcast quality tier is retired — measured against a real slate it passed 174 of 175 games, so it read as a quality bar and behaved as any.

Type of change

  • Bug fix in an existing plugin
  • New plugin (also fill out the SUBMISSION.md checklist below)
  • New feature for an existing plugin
  • Documentation only
  • Repo-wide change (registry script, hook, top-level docs)

Plugin(s) affected

Ten plugins. The PR started as one plugin's ranked-game filter and grew into a single invariant — choose the ranking poll; never trust ESPN's first block — which turned out to be wrong in three separate places.

Plugin Version Why
football-scoreboard 2.29.3 → 3.0.0 ranked filter + retired broadcast + resolver + vocabulary
odds-ticker 1.3.2 → 1.3.3 shares the rankings parser, covers ncaa_fb
hockey-scoreboard 1.20.1 → 1.20.2 badge drew a bracket seed, + resolver
basketball-scoreboard 1.24.1 → 1.24.2 resolver (reachable), badge hardening
baseball-scoreboard 1.35.1 → 1.35.2 hardening, kept in step
lacrosse-scoreboard 1.19.1 → 1.19.2 publishes seedings beside its poll — latent
afl / nrl / soccer / ufc patch no college league; hardening, kept in step

Related issues

N/A — found while working out why SDST @ Northwestern was appearing on an NCAA Football Upcoming list.

What changed and why

The poll is chosen, not trusted. ESPN answers the college football rankings endpoint with four blocks — AP Top 25, AFCA Coaches, FCS Coaches, AFCA Division II — and _fetch_team_rankings took rankings[0]. That is AP today, so the table was FBS by luck rather than by choice: nothing in the payload promises the order, and ESPN does change it (the CFP rankings appear in November). With a lower-division poll leading, every top FCS side reads as ranked and a board asking for the week's best matchups gets South Dakota State at Northwestern — the ranked side is FCS, the FBS side is unranked. _choose_poll keeps ESPN's own order among top-division polls and steps over the ones below FBS.

Teams match by id, not just abbreviation. The FBS and FCS schedules arrive in one scoreboard payload and abbreviations are not unique across divisions (ESPN has SDSU for San Diego State and SDST for South Dakota State today). The rank badge reads the same table, so it can no longer draw an FCS poll position on an FBS board.

broadcast is retired. On the next two weekends' 175 college games it passed 174 — ESPN lists a broadcaster for nearly everything now, ESPN+ included. Boards holding it are read as ranked and say so once in the log. An unusable value now also falls back to ranked with a warning instead of falling through every branch and silently meaning any.

AP_TOP_n had the same bug in a second place (added after review feedback). DynamicTeamResolver._fetch_rankings also took data['rankings'][0]"Use first ranking (usually AP)". The consequence there is worse than for the filter: with a lower-division poll leading, AP_TOP_25 resolves to 25 FCS schools and installs them as favourite teams, and favourites are never filtered by quality or division, so every one of those games reaches the panel. Reproduced end to end — against an FCS-fronted payload the unpatched resolver returns ['MTST'] (Montana State) where the fixed one returns ['OSU'].

That resolver is copied into four plugins and all four map the college football endpoint, so all four are fixed together. AP_TOP_n is reachable through it in basketball, hockey and football; baseball's patterns resolve from the college baseball poll instead, so its copy is hardening with no behaviour change — kept in step rather than left to diverge. It cannot import the sports.py helper (sports.py imports it, and the core loads both as bare top-level names), so the exclusion vocabulary is duplicated with a comment pointing at its twin.

New repo guard scripts/test_dynamic_poll_choice.py holds every copy to it — behavioural, not source-reading, plus a source check so no copy reintroduces the index. Confirmed it fails on the unpatched code.

CI unblock: scripts/check_selection_settings.py hardcoded the other_games_min_quality enum as {any, broadcast, ranked}. Only football-scoreboard's sports.py reads that key and the guard scopes itself by exactly that (_settings_the_code_reads), so narrowing the set to {any, ranked} touches nothing else. Verified: check_selection_settings.py --all reports 9 plugins / 31 blocks OK.

odds-ticker shares this copied rankings parser and also covers ncaa_fb, so the poll-selection guard is ported there in the same PR per the shared-sports-code rule.

Test plan

  • Loaded the plugin in LEDMatrix on real hardware
  • Loaded the plugin in LEDMatrix emulator mode (EMULATOR=true python3 run.py)
  • Rendered the plugin in the dev preview server (scripts/dev_server.py)
  • Verified the web UI configuration form against the schema
  • N/A — repo-wide / docs-only change

Detail:

  • Core render harness green for both pluginsscripts/check_plugin.py: football-scoreboard 24/24 (live/recent/upcoming × all eight sizes), odds-ticker 8/8.
  • test_favorites_are_prioritised.py: 107 checks, 0 failed, including new cases for the lower-division poll, poll ordering, the abbreviation-collision guard, and the broadcastranked migration.
  • Verified end to end against the live ESPN payload: poll chosen is AP Top 25 (25 teams by abbreviation and by id); SDST@NU is now rejected despite its BTN listing; TNST@UGA and WKU@UGA still pass (UGA Simple plugins #3). Re-run with the FCS poll moved to the front of the payload: AP is still the table and South Dakota State is still unranked.
  • scripts/check_module_collisions.py clean across 43 plugins; plugins.json regenerated with update_registry.py.
  • test_favorite_live_boost.py was already red on main, and is fixed here (second commit). It has failed since 2.29.3 gave SportsRecent.update() an odds fetch: that probe is hand-built with __new__, so if self.show_odds: raises AttributeError inside update()'s own try/except, the exception is swallowed, games_list is left empty, and the check reads as "the exclude filter leaked". The log shows the selection working correctly immediately before the raise -- SF filtered out, SEA kept, "No favorites configured: showing 1 total recent games". A fixture gap, not a product bug: show_odds is always set by SportsCore.__init__ on a real manager. Setting it on the probe takes the file to 15/15 with the exclude assertion passing on its own merits. fix(football-scoreboard): fetch odds for the finals the Recent screen selects #344's safety check was red for the same reason.
  • The other six local failures are environmental to this Windows box (missing pytest, a console encoding error) and pass in CI.

Required for plugin changes

  • Bumped version in plugins/<id>/manifest.json (new entry at the top of versions, version in sync)
  • class_name in manifest.json matches the actual class in manager.py exactly
  • entry_point matches the real file (or is omitted to use the manager.py default)
  • Updated the plugin's README.md if config keys changed
  • config_schema.json is the source of truth for the web UI form
  • Pre-commit hook ran successfully (auto-syncs plugins.json) — hook is not installed locally, so python update_registry.py was run by hand and its result committed

Checklist

  • My commits follow the message convention in CONTRIBUTING.md
  • I read CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • I've not committed any secrets

Notes for reviewer

The version bump is the call I'd most like a second opinion on. CLAUDE.md puts "removed options" at MAJOR, so this is 3.0.0. The core's schema validation is soft_validate_config_schema_soft warns and marks the plugin degraded but never blocks loading — so a board that saved broadcast keeps working and gets migrated to ranked at runtime, but will show a config warning in the web UI until the setting is changed once. If you'd rather not signal a major for that, 2.30.0 is a one-line change.

Two things noticed in passing, deliberately not fixed here:

  1. hockey-scoreboard has the same rankings[0] parser, and for men's college hockey ESPN returns NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament Seedings first and the USCHO Men's Poll second — so its rank badge is drawing tournament seeds, not poll positions. Different league, different fix.
  2. get_cycle_duration in football-scoreboard/manager.py counts upcoming games from manager.upcoming_games, which SportsUpcoming initialises to [] and never populates — so the dynamic duration for that mode always falls back to the config default. _get_games_from_manager in the same file already prefers games_list correctly.

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  • New Features

    • Updated the Football Scoreboard plugin to version 3.0.0.
    • Updated the Odds Ticker plugin to version 1.3.3.
  • Improvements

    • Rankings now use the appropriate top-division poll and match teams by unique identifiers.
    • Improved handling of ranking-based game filters.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected college football ranking display when lower-division polls appear first.
  • Configuration

    • Retired the broadcast quality option; existing settings are interpreted as ranked.
    • Invalid quality values now safely fall back to ranked with a warning.

…broadcast tier

The "ranked" quality filter now means ranked in the TOP division's poll.

ESPN answers the college football rankings endpoint with four blocks -- AP
Top 25, the AFCA Coaches Poll, the FCS Coaches Poll and the AFCA Division II
Poll -- and the parser took whichever it listed first. That is AP today, so
the table was FBS by luck rather than by choice: nothing in the payload
promises the order, and ESPN changes it, adding the CFP rankings in November.
With a lower-division poll leading, every top FCS side reads as ranked and a
board asking for the week's best matchups is served South Dakota State at
Northwestern -- the ranked side is FCS, the FBS side is unranked, and it is
exactly the game the setting exists to keep off the panel.

The poll is now chosen rather than trusted: ESPN's own order is kept among
top-division polls, and the ones below FBS are stepped over. Verified against
the live payload with the FCS poll moved to the front -- AP is still the
table, and South Dakota State is still unranked.

Teams are matched by id as well as abbreviation. The FBS and FCS schedules
arrive in one scoreboard payload and an abbreviation is not unique across
divisions -- ESPN has SDSU for San Diego State and SDST for South Dakota
State today, with nothing promising it stays that way -- so two schools
sharing one could promote each other into a ranked slot. The rank badge reads
the same table, so it can no longer draw an FCS poll position on an FBS
board.

BREAKING CHANGE: the "broadcast" quality tier is retired. Measured against a
real Week 1 and Week 2 college slate it passed 174 of 175 games -- ESPN lists
a broadcaster for nearly everything now, ESPN+ included -- so it read as a
quality bar in the dropdown and behaved as "any". Boards holding it are read
as "ranked" and say so once in the log; changing the setting clears the
schema warning the core raises for a value no longer in the enum. An unusable
value there now falls back to "ranked" with a warning too, instead of falling
through every branch and silently meaning "any".

odds-ticker shares this rankings code and also covers college football, so
the poll-selection guard is ported there in the same change.

football-scoreboard 2.29.3 -> 3.0.0, odds-ticker 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pull request updates football ranking selection and quality handling. It retires the broadcast quality tier, matches ranked teams by id, selects top-division ESPN polls, updates tests and documentation, and bumps plugin registry and manifest versions.

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Football ranking and quality behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Football scoreboard ranking and quality flow
plugins/football-scoreboard/sports.py, plugins/football-scoreboard/config_schema.json, plugins/football-scoreboard/test_*.py
The scoreboard selects top-division polls, caches rankings by team id, normalizes retired or invalid quality values to ranked, and removes the broadcast filter. Tests cover poll selection, id matching, and quality normalization.
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plugins/football-scoreboard/README.md, plugins/football-scoreboard/CHANGELOG.md, plugins/football-scoreboard/manifest.json, plugins.json
Documentation and release notes describe the ranking and quality changes. The plugin version changes to 3.0.0, and the registry reflects the new version.

Odds ticker poll selection and release

Layer / File(s) Summary
Odds ticker ranking poll selection
plugins/odds-ticker/manager.py
The rankings loader skips FCS and Division II/III polls and selects the first remaining poll.
Odds ticker release metadata
plugins/odds-ticker/manifest.json, plugins.json
The plugin version changes to 1.3.3, with release notes for the poll selection update.

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When ESPN changes the order of its rankings, dynamic favorite groups may still treat lower-division teams as nationally ranked, causing the scoreboard to select the wrong games or rankings. The ranking rule should be applied consistently before merge.

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  participant FootballScoreboard
  participant ESPNRankingsAPI
  participant QualityFilter
  FootballScoreboard->>ESPNRankingsAPI: Fetch ranking polls
  ESPNRankingsAPI-->>FootballScoreboard: Return polls and team ids
  FootballScoreboard->>QualityFilter: Check ranked-game eligibility
  QualityFilter-->>FootballScoreboard: Return filter result
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In `@plugins/football-scoreboard/sports.py`:
- Around line 1803-1814: Update DynamicTeamResolver._fetch_rankings to skip
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for block in rankings_data or []:
name = str(block.get("name") or "").lower()
kind = str(block.get("type") or "").lower()
if kind in self._NON_TOP_POLL_TYPES or any(
marker in name for marker in self._NON_TOP_POLL_NAMES
):
self.logger.debug(
"%s: skipping %s -- not a top-division poll",
self.league, block.get("name") or kind,
)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the same poll rule for dynamic favorite groups.

SportsCore._choose_poll() now skips lower-division polls. DynamicTeamResolver._fetch_rankings() still uses the first rankings block.

If ESPN lists the FCS poll first, AP_TOP_25 resolves to FCS teams while other_games_min_quality="ranked" uses the top-division poll. Apply the same lower-division exclusion in plugins/football-scoreboard/dynamic_team_resolver.py.

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In `@plugins/football-scoreboard/sports.py` around lines 1803 - 1814, Update
DynamicTeamResolver._fetch_rankings to skip lower-division ranking blocks using
the same non-top poll types and names as SportsCore._choose_poll, then select
the first eligible block so AP_TOP_25 and ranked-game filtering use the same
top-division poll.

ChuckBuilds and others added 3 commits August 31, 2026 17:55
…ttribute

test_favorite_live_boost.py has failed since 2.29.3, which made
SportsRecent.update() fetch odds for the finals it selects. The probe there
is hand-built with __new__, so it has none of SportsCore.__init__'s
attributes, and the new `if self.show_odds:` raises AttributeError inside
update()'s own try/except. The exception is swallowed, games_list is left
empty, and the check reads as "the exclude filter leaked" when the log
actually shows the selection doing its job -- SF filtered out, SEA kept, "No
favorites configured: showing 1 total recent games" -- immediately before the
raise.

A fixture gap, not a product bug: show_odds is always set by
SportsCore.__init__ on a real manager. Setting it on the probe turns the file
green (15/15) with the exclude assertion passing on its own merits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review finding on #347: sports.py's _choose_poll fixed the ranked-game filter,
but DynamicTeamResolver._fetch_rankings still took data['rankings'][0] --
"Use first ranking (usually AP)". Verified against the current code; the
finding's line reference pointed at sports.py, where those lines are the new
_choose_poll, but the substance holds and the second site is real.

The consequence there is worse than for the filter. ESPN answers the college
football rankings endpoint with four blocks -- AP Top 25, the AFCA Coaches
Poll, the FCS Coaches Poll and the AFCA Division II Poll -- and with a
lower-division poll leading, AP_TOP_25 resolves to 25 FCS schools and installs
them as the user's FAVOURITE teams. Favourites are never filtered by quality
or division, so every one of those games reaches the panel: the user asks for
the AP Top 25 and gets the FCS Coaches Poll. Reproduced end to end -- against
an FCS-fronted payload the unpatched resolver returns ['MTST'] where the fixed
one returns ['OSU'].

The resolver is copied into four plugins and all four map that endpoint, so
all four are fixed together. AP_TOP_n is reachable through it in
basketball-scoreboard, hockey-scoreboard and football-scoreboard;
baseball-scoreboard's patterns resolve from the college baseball poll instead,
so its copy is hardening with no behaviour change, kept in step rather than
left to diverge. It cannot import the sports.py helper -- sports.py imports
this module, and the core loads both as bare top-level names -- so the
exclusion vocabulary is duplicated with a comment pointing at its twin.

scripts/test_dynamic_poll_choice.py holds every copy to it, checking behaviour
rather than reading the source, plus a source check so no copy reintroduces
the index. Confirmed it fails on the unpatched code.

Also unblocks CI: scripts/check_selection_settings.py hardcoded the
other_games_min_quality enum as {any, broadcast, ranked}. Only
football-scoreboard's sports.py reads that key and the guard scopes itself by
exactly that, so narrowing the set to {any, ranked} touches nothing else.

baseball-scoreboard 1.35.1 -> 1.35.2, basketball-scoreboard 1.24.1 -> 1.24.2,
hockey-scoreboard 1.20.1 -> 1.20.2. football-scoreboard stays at the
unreleased 3.0.0, with its notes amended.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…et seed

Verified the reported finding against the live API before changing anything,
and it holds: ESPN answers the men's and women's college hockey rankings
endpoint with two blocks and fronts NCAA TOURNAMENT SEEDINGS, ahead of the
USCHO poll.

    hockey/mens-college-hockey    [NCAA Tournament Seedings, USCHO Men's Poll]
    hockey/womens-college-hockey  [NCAA Tournament Seedings, USCHO Women's Poll]

_fetch_team_rankings took rankings_data[0], so a "#5" on a college hockey
panel was a 16-team bracket seed where a viewer expects a poll position. One
correction to the report along the way: the sibling lineages' fetch_standings
does NOT try /standings first the way football's used to -- it requests
/rankings directly -- so the rankings really were loading, and really were the
wrong block. Nothing was masking it.

Surveyed every college league rather than assuming hockey was alone:

    lacrosse/mens-college-lacrosse  [Inside Lacrosse Poll, Tournament Seedings]
    lacrosse/womens-college-lacrosse[Inside Lacrosse Poll, Tournament Seedings]
    basketball/mens-college-basketball [AP Top 25, Coaches Poll]
    baseball/college-baseball       [] -- no poll at all

So hockey is wrong today; lacrosse publishes seedings of its own and is one
reordering away; basketball and baseball are fine but share the code. The
chooser and its vocabulary are ported to all nine sports.py copies, which is
what the shared-sports-code rule asks for and what keeps the copies from
drifting apart again. The vocabulary is one list everywhere -- tournament
seedings and the divisions below the top one -- so football's copy and the
four DynamicTeamResolver copies gain the seedings exclusion too.

ESPN's own order is kept among genuine polls, so whichever poll it fronts
still drives the badge; that is how the CFP rankings take over from AP in
November without a code change. Verified live against all five college
leagues: hockey now picks the USCHO poll where it used to pick seedings, and
lacrosse, basketball and football keep the poll they already had.

scripts/test_dynamic_poll_choice.py is renamed to test_poll_choice.py and
covers both helpers: 78 checks over 4 resolver copies and 9 sports.py copies.
The sports.py half drives _fetch_team_rankings end to end rather than calling
_choose_poll directly -- checking the helper alone passed against a copy whose
call site still read rankings[0], the helper intact and simply unused, which
is precisely the state the guard exists to prevent.

lacrosse 1.19.1 -> 1.19.2, afl 1.17.1 -> 1.17.2, nrl 1.16.1 -> 1.16.2,
soccer 2.19.1 -> 2.19.2, ufc 1.7.1 -> 1.7.2. hockey, basketball, baseball and
football keep the versions this branch already bumped them to, with their
notes extended. The four with no college league say plainly that they are
hardening.

Harness green for all nine plugins (200 renders); collisions clean; all 12
repo guards pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ChuckBuilds ChuckBuilds changed the title feat(scoreboards)!: rank against the top division's poll, retire the broadcast quality tier fix(scoreboards)!: choose the ranking poll instead of trusting ESPN's first block Sep 1, 2026
ChuckBuilds and others added 3 commits September 1, 2026 09:51
…e board

get_cycle_duration asked the manager for recent_games/upcoming_games:

    elif mode_type == 'upcoming':
        games = getattr(manager, 'upcoming_games', [])

SportsUpcoming.__init__ declared `self.upcoming_games = []` -- "Store all
fetched upcoming games initially" -- and never assigned to it again; the
selected games go to games_list. SportsRecent.recent_games is the same. So
total_games was always 0 and every recent or upcoming cycle fell through to
the "no games yet" default of three games' worth instead of scaling with the
number of cards. Live mode reads live_games, which IS populated, which is part
of why this went unnoticed.

Verified against the current code rather than taken on trust, and the survey
narrowed it: only football and baseball had the bug. basketball, hockey and
lacrosse already reach for games_list first inside this function, and afl and
nrl already call _get_games_from_manager -- the helper the scroll path uses,
which resolves it correctly. Those two adopt the helper rather than growing a
fourth shape for the same decision. soccer never had it; ufc has no
get_cycle_duration.

The two attributes are removed from all nine lineages. Nothing filled them and
nothing read them, and their presence is exactly what made a duration
calculation reading them look correct.

scripts/test_cycle_duration_counts_real_games.py holds all 13 copies of the
function to it, and holds the attributes gone. Confirmed it fails on the
unpatched code, on all three counts.

One thing worth knowing about the plugin's own test_dynamic_duration.py: its
assertions sit behind `if hasattr(plugin, "nfl_recent") and
plugin.nfl_recent`, and when the managers fail to build -- which is what
happens under pytest without the core importable -- the whole block is skipped
and the file passes having verified nothing. It reported green against the bug
throughout. Its three writes to the dead attribute now target games_list and
it asserts that two different game counts give two different durations, so it
is correct where it does run, but the guard above is the one that actually
runs everywhere.

Every touched plugin was already bumped earlier on this branch; notes extended
rather than re-bumped. Harness green for all nine (192 renders), all 13 repo
guards pass, collisions clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
main gained #345 (football-scoreboard 2.29.4) while this branch was open, and
it touches the same plugin. sports.py -- the substantive overlap -- merged
cleanly, and main's four new test files pass against the merged tree, so the
lookahead/dwell/advisory-date work and the poll-selection work here do not
collide.

Four conflicts, all bookkeeping:

- test_favorite_live_boost.py: #345 made the SAME show_odds fix on the same
  line, independently. Main's one-liner is kept and the duplicate from
  6b63929 dropped, so this branch no longer carries a redundant diff.
- manifest.json: versions is [3.0.0, 2.29.4, 2.29.3, ...] with version at
  3.0.0. Main's release keeps its entry; this branch's supersedes it.
- CHANGELOG.md: both added a section at the top; 3.0.0 then 2.29.4.
- plugins.json: regenerated with update_registry.py rather than hand-merged.

Verified on the merged tree: all 13 repo guards pass, collisions clean,
football harness 24/24, and every football test file green including the four
main added.

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…g copies

CI on this PR went red on hockey-scoreboard/test_favorite_check.py, which
asserts every *_favorite_check.py copy stays byte-identical. The drift is not
from this branch: #345 fixed the "nothing on until" advisory in
football_favorite_check.py and did not port it, so origin/main fails this same
test today -- confirmed by running it against origin/main in a clean worktree.
The merge simply brought main's red into this PR.

The six sibling copies now carry the same fix. It was a literal byte copy: the
six were identical to each other and football differed by exactly #345's
change, which is what the guard defines as correct.

The fix itself, for the record: the advisory pooled event dates with the
league calendar's week and phase startDates and took the earliest. Calendar
weeks open days before their first game -- an NFL week 1 entry starts the
weekend before a Thursday opener -- so a boundary was reported as a game date.
Events win now; the calendar only speaks for a payload with no events at all.

All six were already bumped earlier on this branch; notes extended rather than
re-bumped. hockey's parity test passes 30/30, harness green for all six, and
each plugin's suite shows no failure it did not already have.

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ChuckBuilds merged commit a1c796e into main Sep 1, 2026
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… here too

Second resolution of this branch against main. Since the last one, #345, #347
and #348 landed, and #346 merged hockey's scroll sunset into here.

Git flagged nine conflicts, all manifests and plugins.json -- no code
conflicts this time. Each manifest had a new versions[] entry on BOTH sides
(this branch's feature release, and main's bug-fix release on the same base),
so they were merged rather than picked: every entry from both sides kept,
sorted newest-first, version set to the higher of the two, and
compatible_versions to the more restrictive -- which preserves hockey's
>=3.2.0 from the sunset. Nothing else in any manifest differed.

Verified main's recent work survived the auto-merge rather than assuming it:
#347's _choose_poll is present in all eight sports.py, #345's
_reset_dwell_on_reentry in football, and #348's recording logger, calendar
1.2.3/3.3.0 floor and flights script rename are all intact.

**The conflict git did not flag.** check_selection_settings failed with 29
problems afterwards. Main retired the "broadcast" tier of
other_games_min_quality in football-scoreboard 3.0.0 -- measured against a
real Week 1 and Week 2 college slate it passed 174 of 175 games, because ESPN
publishes a broadcaster for nearly everything now, ESPN+ included, so it read
as a quality bar and behaved as "any". This branch predates that and still
offered it in all eight lineages. The merge took main's checker and this
branch's schemas, and they disagreed.

Resolved by following main rather than restoring the tier: reinstating it
would have shipped a setting main had already measured as useless across eight
more plugins. Ported football 3.0.0's retirement verbatim -- _QUALITY_CHOICES,
_normalise_quality migrating "broadcast" (and anything unusable) to "ranked"
with a warning, the broadcast branch dropped from _passes_other_filters, and
_note_broadcast_coverage/_broadcast_data_seen removed with it. All eight now
carry exactly the six broadcast references football does, none of them a
quality tier. The enum is gone from 29 schema blocks, and the eight
test_favorites_are_prioritised.py files swap their broadcast-tier checks for
football's migration checks.

A board still holding "broadcast" gets "ranked" and a log line saying why,
rather than silently getting no filtering at all.

Verified: five repo gates pass, including check_selection_settings (9 plugins,
31 blocks) and both gate self-tests; fleet is 238 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9
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