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          "markets": [
            "spread",
            "total"
          ],
          "resolved": false
        },
        {
          "severity": "LOW",
          "risk": "Covered receiver role and availability branches",
          "detail": "Palmer material-role/support-only branches, Moore available/absent branches and FergusonIR -3 must all be evaluated; Bell debut has no NFL regular-season evidence.",
          "markets": [
            "spread",
            "total"
          ],
          "resolved": true,
          "gate_evidence": "All frozen cases and registered3point adverse survive"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "count": 4,
  "scope": "Provider-specific paired spread/total quotes. All role/availability/overlap endpoints frozen before prices; no new personnel estimates. Mean cushions are not calibrated probabilities.",
  "forecast_frozen_utc": "2026-10-12T05:49:15.734012+00:00",
  "price_capture_utc": "2026-10-12T05:49:19.820551+00:00",
  "rankings": {
    "ON": [],
    "OFF": []
  },
  "independent_reviewer": "Independent football desk",
  "risk_assessment_note": "No personnel/source-manifest/forecast mutation. Unresolved high Buffalo nickel risk and3medium risks exclude both configurations; side also fails branch and stress buffers. Total mean cushion passes numerical tests but cannot override risk exclusions.",
  "board_scope": "NFL only; parent reconciles all-sport board. No quota filled.",
  "validation": {
    "all4_unique": true,
    "all_prices_after_freeze": true,
    "score_checksum_unchanged": true,
    "independent_buffer_algebra": true
  }
}