Game8's banner pages lay two schedules side by side inside one <table> under a
spanning label row: "Standard Banners | Banner | Rating | Availability | Paid
Banners | ...". That row is not merely unhelpful, it is plausible — it contains
both column words, so it resolves and puts the range at index 3, which no
three-cell data row has. Every row then fails to date and the table yields
nothing at all, with no error anywhere. So readColumnTable now falls back to
row 1, and only when row 0 produced nothing, which is what keeps every page
that parses today parsing identically.
Those pages also schedule banners rather than events and head their sections
accordingly, so the vocabulary learns "List of All Banners", "All Current
Banners" and — the one that matters — "Previous Banners", whose rows are dated
identically to the live ones directly above them.
This parser serves nine sources, so the widening was measured rather than
trusted: every pinned fixture and every live snapshot was parsed before and
after, and no existing source's output changed by a single event.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
