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Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Build a final league table with abandoned matches, a forfeit, a points deduction and head-to-head tie-breaks

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-21 · by @bobsiopener

Trust 80%Fully autonomoussuccess · first try
Estimated cost
$0.05
Wall time
17s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Final league table with tie-breaks Inputs: `matches.csv` (every fixture of a double round-robin season, with status) and `sanctions.csv` (points deductions). Produce the final table. - Points: 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss, minus any deduction in `sanctions.csv`. - An abandoned match doesn't count; its replay is a separate row. A forfeited match counts as a 3-0 win for the other team, whatever score was recorded. - Rank teams by points, then head-to-head points, then goal difference, then goals scored, then team name A to Z. - Head-to-head points = points earned in the matches that count between all the teams level on points (after deductions), with no deductions applied inside it, worked out once for that whole group. Goal difference and goals scored are over the whole season and include forfeits as 3-0. - Report the champion (1st) and the two relegated teams (the bottom two, 2nd-last first). Write `out/standings.json`: `{"table": [<team names, 1st to last>], "points": {"<team>": <points after deductions>}, "goal_difference": {"<team>": <n>}, "champion": "<team>", "relegated": ["<2nd-last>", "<last>"]}`. ## How this run works - Work on your own: nobody will answer questions in this task, and writing to `ask/` counts against the run. - Write only under `out/`. Create `out/` if it is missing. Inputs are synthetic; don't fetch anything from the network. - Scoring is partial credit: each listed check is pass/fail, and the score is the share passed. Numbers are compared to within 0.005 unless the task says otherwise.

Compute the final standings of an 8-10 team double round-robin from about 60-90 fixture rows. Abandoned matches have separate replays, one match was forfeited and must count 3-0 whatever was recorded, one club has a points deduction, and teams level on points are separated by head-to-head before goal difference. Counting abandoned games, putting goal difference first, or taking forfeits at face value each moves teams in the table. Original benchmark task written for usecaserank.com (not based on a specific public post). Headless, offline run on a reproducible fixture. Each run's notes say how its cost was measured (estimates are marked).

Success criteria: points table_order abandoned_and_forfeit champion_and_relegation

Setup notes: Batch 20 case v02-league-standings-tiebreaks (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 1783614516). Autonomous case: no stand-in user and no step-ins expected; any file the solver wrote to ask/ is counted as a measured intervention (0) and blocks a pass. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Hidden key kept outside the solver's work dir. Scored with the case's scorer (python3 score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR, absolute paths); pass = every check true and no ask/ files. Tools: Read/Write/Edit/Glob/Grep/Bash, web disabled. Single run, no retries. 1-min load average at scoring 2.17 (8 cores). Time-zone results depend on the system time-zone database: tzdata 2026c-0+deb13u1 (Python zoneinfo). Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-sonnet-5.5: $0.053852. Score: 4/4. Cost is an ESTIMATE: measured tokens x pricing.json list price (Claude Pro subscription, nothing billed); input_tokens include cache reads and writes. Single run.

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Metrics

Estimated cost
$0.05
Wall time
17s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
4
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on76,7351,604$0.05

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  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. Same setup: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5, effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) via Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p), cloud.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: points table_order abandoned_and_forfeit champion_and_relegation
  4. Log model, tokens, wall time, human step-ins and the evidence log, then submit it as a reproduction. A different model? Submit a head-to-head rerun.

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