app/routes/admin.sports-seasons.$id.simulator.tsx

@@ -69,6 +69,25 @@ interface ActionData {
   message: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Engine knobs that a simulator (or the shared input-policy resolver) actually
+ * reads from config. The structured Engine fields are limited to these so the UI
+ * never shows a control that silently does nothing — bespoke per-sim constants
+ * (e.g. homeFieldElo, eloDivisor, srsEloScale, raceNoise) that live in a profile
+ * but are not read from config stay editable only via the raw-JSON escape hatch.
+ */
+const HONORED_ENGINE_KNOBS = new Set([
+  "iterations",
+  "parityFactor",
+  "seasonGames",
+  "overtimeRate",
+  "matchParityFactor",
+  "averageOpponentElo",
+  "baseDrawRate",
+  "drawDecay",
+  "ratingScaleFactor",
+]);
+
 function parseOptionalNumber(value: string | undefined): number | null {
   if (value === undefined || value.trim() === "") return null;
   const parsed = Number(value);
@@ -335,7 +354,7 @@ export default function AdminSportsSeasonSimulator({ loaderData }: Route.Compone
   // nested object edited in its own section). Driving the fields from the merged
   // config means each simulator shows exactly the knobs it actually reads.
   const engineEntries = Object.entries(config.config)
-    .filter(([key, value]) => key !== "inputPolicy" && typeof value === "number")
+    .filter(([key, value]) => HONORED_ENGINE_KNOBS.has(key) && typeof value === "number")
     .map(([key, value]) => [key, value as unknown as number] as [string, number]);
 
   return (

app/services/simulations/input-policy.ts

@@ -254,14 +254,11 @@ export function resolveSourceElos(
       );
     }
     if (oddsInputs.length >= 2) {
-      // Map onto the configured Elo band so the policy's floor/ceiling set the
-      // odds-derived *spread* (the real flattening dial), not just a post-hoc clamp.
-      const converted = convertFuturesToElo(oddsInputs, "american", {
-        exponent: 0.33,
-        eloMin: policy.eloMin,
-        eloMax: policy.eloMax,
-      });
-      for (const [participantId, elo] of converted) {
+      // Odds map onto the calibrated band (probability-engine DEFAULT_CALIBRATION);
+      // the policy's eloMin/eloMax then clamp the result via clampDerived below, so
+      // a season's Elo floor/ceiling still narrows the odds-derived spread without
+      // widening it (and without clamping a high directly-entered base Elo's blend).
+      for (const [participantId, elo] of convertFuturesToElo(oddsInputs)) {
         oddsElo.set(participantId, elo);
       }
     }