=== PinOdds Field Board ===
Contributors: skipseek
Tags: golf, majors, leaderboard, field, win probability
Requires at least: 6.2
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 0.2.0
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

The golf major's field, ranked by consensus win chance — a native leaderboard for your posts that updates itself through tournament week.

== Description ==

Who's actually expected to win the major? Show your readers the whole picture.

Golf isn't head-to-head — it's a field of 150 players, and the story of tournament week is how that field is ranked. PinOdds Field Board renders that ranking natively in your post: every contender ordered by consensus win chance, with a probability bar and percentage, from the favorite down as deep as you want to show. It updates itself all week as the market moves — no editing, no re-pasting numbers.

**What the board shows**

* The field ranked by de-vigged consensus win probability — the bookmaker margin is stripped out, so the numbers are honest chances, not prices
* A probability bar per player, scaled to the favorite, so the shape of the field is visible at a glance
* Tournament title and start date, plus how many books the consensus draws from
* Native HTML that inherits your theme's fonts and colors — no iframes, no external scripts for your visitors

**How to use it**

1. Install and activate — it works out of the box with the bundled demo access
2. Add `[pinodds_field]` (or the "Field Board" block) where the board should appear
3. Options: `[pinodds_field top="30"]` shows 30 players; `tournament="…"` pins a specific event by its API key

== External services ==

This plugin retrieves tournament fields and market-consensus win probabilities from the PinOdds data API operated by SkipSeek (endpoint: skipodds.com/v1). Requests are made server-side from your site (never from your visitors' browsers) and contain no personal data — only the tournament being requested and your API key. Terms and privacy: https://skipodds.com/terms and https://skipodds.com/privacy-policy.

Win chances are informational market consensus, not betting advice.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Where does the data come from? =

The PinOdds data API aggregates bookmaker outright prices for the tournament, removes the bookmaker margin, and normalizes the field to honest win probabilities. Your site fetches the board server-side and caches it for 15 minutes.

= Do I need an API key? =

No — the bundled demo access is enough for a cached board. High-traffic sites can add their own key under Settings → PinOdds Field Board.

= Which tournaments are covered? =

The four men's majors, plus other priced events as they appear in the feed. With no `tournament` attribute the board always shows the next one.

= Does it slow my site down? =

No. The board renders from a 15-minute WordPress cache; visitors never wait on the API, and if the API is briefly unreachable your last board keeps rendering.

== Screenshots ==

1. The ranked field rendered natively in a post
2. The Field Board block in the editor
3. Settings

== Changelog ==

= 0.2.0 =
* Complete rebuild as Field Board: native server-rendered win-chance leaderboard for the tournament field, with transient caching. No embeds.

= 0.1.0 =
* Initial release (superseded).
