Kaggriculture
A two-player farming-simulation agent ladder, ranked by a Bradley-Terry fit over games played after the deadline. My agents build on the public Shepherd's Ledger tape-replay chassis with layers of our own, and the research was about which edits to a replay agent actually move win rate in a shared-market economy. The biggest lesson: every layer measured as a gain offline against recorded games, yet the later agents rated lower on the live ladder, because the gains were small next to the game-to-game swing and recorded opponents do not react. Solo entry, 99 submissions over four weeks.