Version 1.2-6: 2026-09-18

  - Corrected binary home-field effects at neutral sites and retained the score intercept when overtime is modeled without home-field effects.

  - Corrected Poisson likelihood constants for zero and one, stabilized probit derivatives in the negative tail, and safeguarded conditional-mode and fixed-effect Newton updates.

  - Corrected fully exponential joint-model covariance and fixed-effect updates to include both response families. Final ratings are now recomputed at the returned model parameters.

  - Unified exact Gaussian ML/REML computations. REML without a margin home effect now omits the fixed effect and its uncertainty. Corrected likelihood constants, covariance scores, and fixed-model residual degrees of freedom.

  - Enabled Hessian output for N.mov and corrected Hessians to differentiate the negative likelihood. Gaussian REML Hessians cover covariance parameters; fixed-effect uncertainty remains in N.output.

  - Corrected N.mov predictions and added explicit errors for invalid input, unknown teams, unidentifiable fixed effects, and unsupported overtime options. Preserved the historical paired-binary treatment of ties and documented its interpretation.

  - Added final logLik, iterations, converged, and approximation diagnostics for every method. P1 now reports its game-effect variance in G, and Poisson parameters have names without requesting a Hessian. verbose=FALSE suppresses progress output.

  - Moved all function and dataset documentation into roxygen source comments, regenerated with roxygen2 8.1.0, and added testthat coverage of all methods and numerical/statistical identities.

  - These corrections can change previous estimates, including default home-field and fully exponential fits. Public function arguments and defaults are unchanged.

Version 1.2-5: 2026-06-08

	- Fixed handling of method="N.mov" with home.field=FALSE. In previous
	  versions this option was silently ignored because N_mov() forced
	  home.field=TRUE internally.

	- Fixed related no-home-field parameter indexing in the N_mov() and
	  NB_mov() score/Hessian helpers.

	- Fixed no-home-field binary fixed-effect assignment in the PB_cre()
	  Hessian helper.

	- Added neutral-site/home-field smoke coverage. Short regression coverage
	  is run during package checks; the full option matrix can be run locally
	  with NOT_CRAN=true.

	- Refreshed user documentation, examples, references, and citation
	  metadata.

	- Default home.field=TRUE behavior is intended to be unchanged. Prior
	  results are expected to be affected only for calls using
	  method="N.mov", home.field=FALSE.

Version 1.2-4: 2023-01-06

	- Added DOI links to references in Description.

Version 1.2-3: 2023-01-03
	
	- Added paper reference about potential bias in the home field effect estimates
	
	- Changed default for REML.N to TRUE
	
Version 1.2-2: 2018-08-23
	
	- Corrected output of offensive and defensive team ratings when method="N"

Version 1.2-1: 2018-02-12
	
	- Added "N.mov" method.

Version 1.2-0: 2017-11-18
	
	- Added "REML.N" argument. 

Version 1.1-2: 2015-11-10

	- Changed option method="Richardson" to method="simple" for jacobian function
	from package numDeriv

	- Changed the sign of the Hessian

	- Now reports scaled conditional residuals for models N and NB

Version 1.0-2: 2014-06-22

        - First public release.
