{
  "id": "candidate-incentives-v1",
  "policy": "champion-first-retained-hosts-v1",
  "files": {
    "scripts/audit-candidate-incentives.mjs": "f472279296fe115ef9e42dd14c45ecbf51544acdf622ba731e8cf4a86dac1210",
    "app/data/protection-candidate.mjs": "3d0bd74b345095c8006ff88dcd19ca5c63506ec6478ce12c7ce99261e8038dae",
    "scripts/protected-field-model.mjs": "fa859d7f7382cc06c70f0b314ede117234423f47f25276cbc6917c75b1897d1f"
  },
  "design": {
    "teams": 30,
    "titleParticipants": 18,
    "conferences": 9,
    "pairings": [
      "adjacent",
      "mirrored"
    ],
    "beforeOrders": [
      "pre-title order",
      "swap pre-title9 and17"
    ],
    "winnerVectors": 512,
    "ownRankGains": [
      0,
      1,
      2
    ],
    "skip": "Skip gains larger than original rank minus1; no duplicate top-position interventions.",
    "championSelection": "Recompute five champions from each final order and title-winner vector, including at least one non-Power Four champion.",
    "fixed": "Same pre-title ranking, participant identities, conference classifications, universe and explicit all-team double-bye eligibility. Four Power Four labels are the first four games.",
    "entryOrdering": "double > single > host > road > excluded; a structural preference, not a measured welfare ordering.",
    "witnessSelection": "First strictly improved-own-rank entry regression in declared loop order; fixed-order regressions counted separately. No empirical probability claim."
  },
  "limits": [
    "Declared final rankings, not computed NRR or observed seasons.",
    "No causal claim that teams can manipulate rankings or prefer to lose.",
    "A valid allocation counterexample refutes universal entry-benefit monotonicity over these allowed input pairs, not necessarily a fully specified ranking-plus-selection pipeline.",
    "No historical frequency estimate or calibrated title forecast."
  ]
}