SealedH-ALPHA-LEAGUES-SEASON-191f9cd6b…Season 0 · soft launch · closes 2026-07-21
Season 0 — the frozen rules.
The scoring rules were sealed 2026-07-09, before the season started, in H-ALPHA-LEAGUES-SEASON-1_2026-07-09.md. On 2026-07-16 the operator designated this window Season 0 (soft launch), closing at the 2026-07-21 session close — by dated, hashed addendum (H-ALPHA-LEAGUES-SEASON-0-REFRAME_2026-07-16.md), never by editing the sealed document. Scoring math, tiebreaks and caps are unchanged; anyone can recompute every score from the published data.
Season 0 is our live shakedown — the promoted Season 1 opens with a fresh pre-registration, new features, and the full player catalog. Season 0 results stay on the permanent record. Each division still crowns its champion at the close under the sealed rules below.
Rule 1
Season window (Season 0)
First scored session 2026-07-14, last scored session 2026-07-21 — 6 expected sessions. Dates are the dates[] entries of the published per-pool returns files — no other calendar is used. (The sealed document pre-registered this window through 2026-10-09as "Season 1"; the 2026-07-16 addendum designates it Season 0 and sets the close — the one disclosed deviation, applied identically to every team. The promoted Season 1 opens under a fresh pre-registration.)
Rule 2
Scoring (unchanged — sealed)
A unit's daily contribution is its published daily net return (r_pct = stored / scale from /data/alpha-leagues/cell_returns_<pool>.json). A unit's season score is the cumulative sum of its daily series over the scored window. A team's score is the equal-weight mean across its drafted units — not salary-weighted. Salaries price the draft; they do not weight the score. Scores are recomputed daily from the published files — your score accrues from your first session; only the statistical tiles wait for 5 sessions. Highest cumulative score in your division at the season close wins — each division crowns its own champion; drawdown breaks ties (Rule 3).
Rule 3
Tiebreaks (in order — unchanged)
(1) Lower team max drawdown over the scored window, computed on the team's equal-weight mean daily series via the cumulative-sum curve; (2) lower total salary spent at creation; (3) earlier sealed creation timestamp.
Rule 4
Missing data (unchanged)
A unit with no published row on a date contributes 0 for that date (zero-fill). No interpolation, no back-fill, no exclusion.
Rule 5
Eligibility (unchanged)
Units present in the published catalog at season start (2026-07-14) are draftable; mid-season additions join the nextseason. A team's scored window starts at the later of the season start and its sealed creation time — you cannot draft yesterday's winners into yesterday. Rosters are immutable after creation. Teams created after the Season-0 close score in the promoted Season 1.
Rule 6
Division caps + rosters (unchanged)
| Division | Roster | Salary cap |
|---|
| Pool Certified | exactly 3 of 6 | $12,000 |
| Pool Sectors | 4 of 27 | $9,000 |
| Pool Pairs | 5 of 40 | $5,000 |
| Pool Prospects | 3 of 6 | $1,500 |
| Pool Classical (Legacy) | per-league K (ladder) | LEAGUES-3 ladder, unchanged |
The certified cap is deliberately tight: the A-captain + two-B's roster (4,500 + 4,300 + 4,000 = $12,800) does not fit the $12,000 cap by design — 15 of 20 possible rosters (including the median build) do. Caps are enforced in the builder and re-validated server-side on every save.
Rule 7
Auditability (unchanged)
Every input is public: team rosters are SHA-256-sealed at creation, unit series ship at /data/alpha-leagues/cell_returns_<pool>.json, and the scoring function above is deterministic. Recompute any leaderboard number yourself; if it disagrees with ours, ours is wrong.
Verify the frozen rules — both documents
The sealed pre-registration H-ALPHA-LEAGUES-SEASON-1_2026-07-09.md (every scoring rule above) has SHA-256:
91f9cd6b401ee425164f9bf51e35f489ab592545f8ec5da6eadc82ccb49bb9bd
The Season-0 reframe addendum H-ALPHA-LEAGUES-SEASON-0-REFRAME_2026-07-16.md (name, close date 2026-07-21, framing — nothing else) has SHA-256:
8c981d27ee10aa279b35f269022dfb3e584a0acbab0decffe15be31ea4df27eb
If the rules you are reading anywhere ever disagree with the documents bearing those hashes, the hashes win.
Alpha Leagues is a record-only fantasy game. Salaries, scores, leaderboards and Coach recommendations are game mechanics computed from published record-only shadow series — not investment advice, not allocation advice, and not an offer of any financial product. Several divisions are explicitly attribution slices (gross-of-cost) or watch-only prospects tracked warts-and-all. Past performance is not predictive of future returns.
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