Settlement is the act of grading a bet against the final result: won, lost or void, with profit computed from the odds actually taken. For an individual bettor it is bookkeeping; for anyone publishing tips it is the entire basis of credibility. A record only means something if every published tip is graded — at the published price, against the official score, with losses included.
The classic tipster scams are settlement scams: deleting losers, grading against better odds than were available, or quietly reclassifying losses as 'voids'. Our pipeline is built against exactly that: every tip is archived before kick-off with its price, results are graded automatically from official final scores, and nothing is edited afterwards — the archive pages stay up, wins and losses alike.
Tip archived at 2.30 pre-match. Final score grades it a winner: +1.30 units at flat stakes. Had it lost, the same page would permanently show −1.00 — that permanence is the point.