TailMyPicks

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Wallet 0x1b41…ceba

Rebuilt .

Summary

Qualified picks
90
Categories scored
10
Categories below 50
6

Best Category: Tennis, grading 54 out of 100 (+0.04 per pick).

Best Category Tennis at 54 out of 100; worst Asian League at 42.

What is a Tail Score?

A mark out of 100, per Category. 50 means no edge at all — this wallet did about what the prices it paid implied it would. Above 50 it beat those prices; below 50 it did worse than them.

The scale does not move. 100 is a wallet beating the prices it paid by 0.45 per pick and 0 is losing to them by the same, on every wallet, on every page, in every month. So a grade you screenshot today still means what it meant when you took it, and two wallets can be put side by side.

Nobody reaches either end. Across every wallet TailMyPicks has scored, the marks run from roughly 5 to 87 — which is what a fixed ruler costs, and what buys the sentence above.

It is not a win rate. A wallet can win four Picks in five and still grade below 50, if the market was already pricing those outcomes at 90c — it paid for the wins rather than finding them. The vs expected and Avg entry columns below are what separate the two.

The mark is deliberately pulled toward 50 when there is little evidence. Three lucky Picks do not produce a high grade; several hundred consistent ones do. So a modest grade on thousands of Picks means something a high grade on twelve does not.

Because it is shrunk this way, a Category grade is a conservative reading. The headline figure for a wallet is its best Category, so it always understates how badly the wallet does in its worst one — which is why the table below is per Category and not one blended number.

Record by Category

Ordered by how much this wallet actually traded in each Category, not by score — so the Categories it plays most appear first whether they went well or badly. Open any row to see the picks its numbers were computed from — all of them.

CategoryQualified picksWin ratevs expectedRealizable edgeAvg entryROI per pickTail Score
Fifa International Inactivelast resolved Jul 3, 2026, EDT2665.4%17 W · 9 L0.0wins0.00per pick65cpaid+1.6%equal weight500.00 edge/pick
Fifa International — the 26 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in Fifa International, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
Australia vs. Egypt: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)66c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageJul 3, 2026, EDT+51.5%+$6.36
Germany vs. Paraguay: O/U 3.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)65c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 29, 2026, EDT+53.8%+$6.99
Uruguay vs. Spain: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)55c$18Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 26, 2026, EDT+81.8%+$14.47
Cabo Verde vs. Saudi Arabia: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)54c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 26, 2026, EDT+85.2%+$11.24
Paraguay vs. Australia: O/U 1.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)55c$16Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 26, 2026, EDT-100%-$15.81
Czechia vs. Mexico: O/U 2.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)46c$22Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 24, 2026, EDT+117.4%+$25.93
Spain vs. Saudi Arabia: O/U 2.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)67c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT+49.3%+$5.98
Belgium vs. Egypt: O/U 3.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)72c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 15, 2026, EDT+38.9%+$4.23
Spread: Saudi Arabia (-2.5)backed Puerto Rico · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)69c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.85
Paraguay vs. Nicaragua: O/U 4.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)75c$18Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT+32.5%+$5.97
Angola vs. Mauritania: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)65c$24Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT+54.4%+$13.25
Benin vs. Niger: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)64c$16Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT+57%+$8.92
Hungary vs. Finland: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)55c$12Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.66
San Marino vs. Bangladesh: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)66c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.82
Slovakia vs. Montenegro: O/U 3.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)74c$16Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT-100%-$16.46
Georgia vs. Bahrain: O/U 3.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)63c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT+57.5%+$6.45
Georgia vs. Bahrain: O/U 4.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)80c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT+25.2%+$2.85
Indonesia vs. Oman: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)61c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 5, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.25
Andorra vs. Liechtenstein: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)67c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 4, 2026, EDT+49.3%+$5.66
Cambodia vs. Bhutan: O/U 2.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)62c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 4, 2026, EDT+61.3%+$6.39
Korea Republic vs. Trinidad and Tobago: O/U 4.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)75c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 31, 2026, EDT+33.3%+$4.07
Scotland vs. Curaçao: O/U 4.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)80c$22Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 30, 2026, EDT-100%-$21.54
Scotland vs. Curaçao: O/U 3.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)62c$34Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 30, 2026, EDT-100%-$34.05
South Africa vs. Nicaragua: O/U 2.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)63c$13Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$12.94
Spread: South Africa (-2.5)backed Nicaragua · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)61c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+64%+$6.9
Showing 25 of 26 picks, newest first.
Tennis Inactivelast resolved Jul 11, 2026, EDT1866.7%12 W · 6 L+1.5wins+0.09per pick58cpaid+14%equal weight54+0.04 edge/pick
Tennis — the 18 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in Tennis, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
Set Handicap: Badosa (-1.5) vs Waltert (+1.5)backed Waltert · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageJul 11, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.59
Set Handicap: Bartunkova (-1.5) vs Stearns (+1.5)backed Stearns · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)52c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 29, 2026, EDT+92.3%+$11.81
Set Handicap: Chwalinska (-1.5) vs Sawangkaew (+1.5)backed Chwalinska · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)45c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.26
Draper vs. Humbert: Match O/U 23.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$16Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 26, 2026, EDT+100%+$15.62
Set Handicap: Fokina (-1.5) vs Dimitrov (+1.5)backed Fokina · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)49c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 25, 2026, EDT+104.1%+$11.59
Set Handicap: Osaka (-1.5) vs Alexandrova (+1.5)backed Osaka · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 25, 2026, EDT+101.5%+$12.76
Set Handicap: Pegula (-1.5) vs Noskova (+1.5)backed Pegula · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)49c$12Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT-100%-$12.2
Set Handicap: Siniakova (-1.5) vs Samsonova (+1.5)backed Siniakova · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)48c$10Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.48
Set Handicap: Berrettini (-2.5) vs Comesana (+2.5)backed Comesana · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)70c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 30, 2026, EDT+42.9%+$4.66
Set Handicap: Zverev (-1.5) vs Halys (+1.5)backed Zverev · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)79c$30Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+26.6%+$7.97
Set Handicap: Jodar (-2.5) vs Michelsen (+2.5)backed Michelsen · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)59c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+69.5%+$8.87
Set Handicap: Jodar (-1.5) vs Michelsen (+1.5)backed Jodar · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)68c$10Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.31
Sierra vs. Cirstea: Match O/U 21.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)52c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+93.4%+$9.43
Set Handicap: Kostyuk (-1.5) vs Golubic (+1.5)backed Kostyuk · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)71c$31Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+40.8%+$12.86
Set Handicap: Nakashima (-2.5) vs Assche (+2.5)backed Assche · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)69c$16Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 28, 2026, EDT+44.7%+$6.98
Set Handicap: Berrettini (-1.5) vs Rinderknech (+1.5)backed Rinderknech · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)65c$13Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 28, 2026, EDT-100%-$13.15
Set Handicap: Darderi (-2.5) vs Comesana (+2.5)backed Comesana · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)65c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 28, 2026, EDT+53.8%+$5.88
Set Handicap: Auger-Aliassime (-1.5) vs Burruchaga (+1.5)backed Auger-Aliassime · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)55c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 28, 2026, EDT+81.8%+$10.54
All 18 picks, newest first.
MLB Inactivelast resolved Jul 11, 2026, EDT1861.1%11 W · 7 L+1.0wins+0.06per pick55cpaid+14.4%equal weight53+0.02 edge/pick
MLB — the 18 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in MLB, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
Milwaukee Brewers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: O/U 9.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)59c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJul 11, 2026, EDT+69.5%+$7.51
Tampa Bay Rays vs. Houston Astros: O/U 8.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)49c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageJul 3, 2026, EDT+104.1%+$12.07
Seattle Mariners vs. Cleveland Guardians: O/U 7.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)49c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 27, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.27
Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets: O/U 8.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$13Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 25, 2026, EDT-100%-$13.33
Cincinnati Reds vs. New York Yankees: O/U 8.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)48c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT+108.3%+$13.29
Chicago White Sox vs. Detroit Tigers: O/U 8.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$13Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT-100%-$12.98
San Francisco Giants vs. Miami Marlins: O/U 7.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)45c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT+122.2%+$12.64
Spread: Los Angeles Dodgers (-2.5)backed Baltimore Orioles · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)59c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 21, 2026, EDT+69.5%+$6.96
Detroit Tigers vs. Houston Astros: O/U 9.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)61c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 16, 2026, EDT+63.9%+$6.67
Kansas City Royals vs. Minnesota Twins: O/U 10.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)63c$12Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 4, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.58
Cleveland Guardians vs. New York Yankees: O/U 8.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)48c$11Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 4, 2026, EDT+108.3%+$11.45
Spread: New York Mets (-1.5)backed Miami Marlins · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)65c$10Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.18
Spread: San Diego Padres (-1.5)backed Washington Nationals · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)59c$12Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.57
Spread: Detroit Tigers (-1.5)backed Baltimore Orioles · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)64c$10Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 25, 2026, EDT-100%-$10
Spread: Baltimore Orioles (-1.5)backed Tampa Bay Rays · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)64c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 20, 2026, EDT+56.3%+$5.63
Spread: New York Yankees (-2.5)backed Toronto Blue Jays · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)64c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 19, 2026, EDT+56.3%+$5.63
New York Yankees vs. New York Mets: O/U 9.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 17, 2026, EDT+100%+$10
Kansas City Royals vs. St. Louis Cardinals: O/U 7.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)50c$10Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 16, 2026, EDT+100%+$10
All 18 picks, newest first.
Asian League Inactivelast resolved Jul 4, 2026, EDT944.4%4 W · 5 L-2.4wins-0.26per pick71cpaid-39%equal weight42-0.07 edge/pick
Asian League — the 9 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in Asian League, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
Spread: Beijing Guoan FC (-1.5)backed Shandong Taishan FC · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)65c$14Lost — open this pick on its own pageJul 4, 2026, EDT-100%-$13.51
Dalian Yingbo FC vs. Shanghai Shenhua FC: O/U 4.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)72c$10Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 28, 2026, EDT-100%-$10.14
Spread: Beijing Guoan FC (-2.5)backed Wuhan San Zhen FC · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)70c$16Won — open this pick on its own pageJun 27, 2026, EDT+42.7%+$6.92
Fagiano Okayama vs. Urawa Red Diamonds: O/U 1.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)66c$13Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 31, 2026, EDT+51.5%+$6.45
Chongqing Tonglianglong FC vs. Beijing Guoan FC: O/U 1.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)77c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 30, 2026, EDT+29.9%+$3.56
Vissel Kōbe vs. Kashima Antlers: O/U 2.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)62c$13Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 30, 2026, EDT-100%-$13.01
Liaoning Tieren FC vs. Shanghai Haigang FC: O/U 4.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)80c$20Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$19.6
Liaoning Tieren FC vs. Shanghai Haigang FC: O/U 1.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)80c$19Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+25%+$4.84
Liaoning Tieren FC vs. Shanghai Haigang FC: O/U 3.5backed Under · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)64c$11Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.29
All 9 picks, newest first.
WNBA Inactivelast resolved Jul 10, 2026, EDT825%2 W · 6 L-2.0wins-0.25per pick50cpaid-50.5%equal weight43-0.06 edge/pick
WNBA — the 8 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in WNBA, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

South American Leagues Inactivelast resolved May 30, 2026, EDT425%1 W · 3 L-1.9wins-0.48per pick73cpaid-67.1%equal weight43-0.07 edge/pick
South American Leagues — the 4 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in South American Leagues, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

Other European Leagues Inactivelast resolved Jul 11, 2026, EDT333.3%1 W · 2 L-1.0wins-0.33per pick67cpaid-56.1%equal weight46-0.04 edge/pick
Other European Leagues — the 3 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in Other European Leagues, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

NBA Inactivelast resolved May 30, 2026, EDT250%1 W · 1 L-0.1wins-0.05per pick55cpaid-7.6%equal weight500.00 edge/pick
NBA — the 2 picks behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in NBA, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
1H Spread: Thunder (-1.5)backed Thunder · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)55c$12Lost — open this pick on its own pageMay 30, 2026, EDT-100%-$11.61
1H Spread: Spurs (-1.5)backed Spurs · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)54c$16Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 28, 2026, EDT+84.7%+$13.37
All 2 picks, newest first.
Ligue 1 Inactivelast resolved May 29, 2026, EDT1100%1 W · 0 L+0.3wins+0.34per pick66cpaid+51.5%equal weight51+0.01 edge/pick
Ligue 1 — the 1 pick behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in Ligue 1, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
Nice vs. Saint-Etienne: O/U 1.5backed Over · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)66c$12Won — open this pick on its own pageMay 29, 2026, EDT+51.5%+$6.42
All 1 picks, newest first.
NHL Inactivelast resolved Jun 14, 2026, EDT10%0 W · 1 L-0.7wins-0.69per pick69cpaid-100%equal weight47-0.03 edge/pick
NHL — the 1 pick behind this row

Every qualified pick this wallet made in NHL, newest first — these are the picks the row above was computed from, not a sample of them. P/L held is what each pick would have been worth held to resolution, not cash this wallet withdrew. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in. A market name opens TailMyPicks’s own post-mortem of that market — who else was on it, and what they paid — and a result opens that one pick on a page of its own, which is the link to send somebody.

MarketEntrySizeResultResolvedReturnP/L held
Spread: Hurricanes (-1.5)backed Golden Knights · on Polymarket (opens in a new tab)69c$12Lost — open this pick on its own pageJun 14, 2026, EDT-100%-$12.16
All 1 picks, newest first.

vs expected is how many more (or fewer) Picks this wallet won than the prices it paid implied it would. It is the column that tells a real edge apart from a record bought by backing favourites. Realizable edge is what that comes to per Pick for somebody copying the wallet, after the cost of getting in behind it. Avg entry is the average price it paid, so a strong record built on heavy favourites shows as one. ROI per pick counts every Pick equally rather than by size, which is how a record earned across many Picks is told apart from one carried by a few large ones. Days are shown in US/Eastern, the zone Polymarket writes its markets in — an American night game settles after midnight UTC, so any other zone would name the day after the one it was played on. Inactive means nothing has resolved in that Category recently. The score is kept and the wallet stays reachable here; it only leaves the default leaderboard.

Not every trade counts. A Pick has to clear four thresholds to be scored.

TailMyPicks scores a wallet on what it can actually be judged on: positions held to resolution, in markets with enough volume to be real, at prices where being right was not already priced in.

  • The market traded at least $500.
  • The entry price was between 0.00 and 0.80 — a near-certainty is not a call.
  • The position was at least $10 — dust is not a position.
  • The market has resolved, so there is a right answer to grade against.

Thresholds behind these numbers: set by an operator decision, not measured.