1. Research question and findings at a glance

Historical tournament records identify one Craig County municipality—Vinita—and one exact facility label—Bill Morgan Sports Complex. The public-benefit question is not whether a model can generate large numbers. It is whether verifiable agreements, public expenditures, participation policies and event-level transaction records allow residents to distinguish who scheduled fields, who bore costs, who handled admissions or concessions and what measurable community access resulted.

The September 20, 2026 Hidden Valley CSV contains 52 distinct event links (not 162 independently distinct events), 162 division rows and 1,138 team participations labelled Craig County between 2008 and 2021. All 162 rows identify the same named municipality and facility. Modelled gross gate totals $1,405,400; $1,146,300 (81.6%) arises from 47 rows marked League Play, for which modeled entry fees are zero. The data also contain five zero-team rows with negative games and officiating values in a single 2018 league event. These are verification priorities, not findings of actual collections or misconduct.

2. Geographic scope, ownership and attribution

The county assignment used here is the original source-coded Craig County label. Each record names Vinita as municipality and Bill Morgan Sports Complex as facility. Because only one municipality appears, Vinita is used for analytical geographic attribution—not a legal determination that the City owns the parcel, the fields, concessions, building improvements or equipment.

The City of Vinita’s official community-facilities page lists Bill Morgan Sports Complex as a four-field baseball/softball venue at 1550 West Hope Avenue and gives City Hall as the public contact. The historical Hidden Valley rows instead specify 1410 W Hope Avenue. The address difference remains unresolved until parcel maps, recorded deeds and historical venue agreements are checked. It could represent an entrance, address change, parcel numbering or a data-entry convention; the discrepancy alone proves none of those explanations.

The facility is not provisionally assigned to a school, tribe, county or private owner without documentary evidence. Any subsequently verified county, tribal, school or private title/control should replace analytical municipality attribution. In a future cross-county/multi-site case, retain the event in an unresolved group until the primary playing facility’s county is documented, rather than splitting an event among counties or counting it twice.

Reconciliation: County = Vinita municipality = Bill Morgan facility; each is an alternate view of exactly the same 162 records and 52 event links, not three additive populations. The facility location is corroborated by the City webpage; event-specific use and historical title remain unverified.

3. Countywide financial and tournament-activity ledger

These figures are direct sums of the CSV’s division-level modeled fields. No outside ticketing or accounting records have validated any estimated admissions, concessions, fees, games or official assignments.

Sanction breakdown: source-calculated team sanction fees $11,380 + source-calculated event sanction fees $3,900 = $15,280. Source-derived signed games and officiating sums include five invalid negative model outputs, explained in §7; do not report them as negative real games or refund payments.

4. Dedicated countywide modeled visitor-spending / “economic impact” ledger

Arithmetic: $273,460 + $204,323 = $477,783; the municipality-to-county and facility-to-county reconciliation differences are both $0. The latter two attribution rows are overlapping views of the same records—not additional spending to be stacked onto the county total.

Exact division-row formulas and a checked example

DayImpact = TeamsEntered × DayTripRate × DayStay
OvernightImpact = TeamsEntered × NightTripRate × OverNightStay
TotalEconomicImpactPerEvent [division row] = DayImpact + OvernightImpact

Worked historical source example: Division record 16610-1, “Vinita Qualifier,” May 3, 2008, lists six teams and one day of day-trip activity at $85 per team: 6 × $85 × 1 = $510. It also lists one overnight stay at $289: 6 × $289 × 1 = $1,734. Source division-row total: $2,244. This is a model demonstration, not evidence that the six teams actually purchased hotel rooms or that $2,244 stayed within Craig County.

Rate preservation: across the 162 rows, DayTripRate is $25 (86 rows) or $85 (76 rows); NightTripRate is $289 (88 rows) or zero (74 rows). DayStay takes 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 28; OverNightStay takes 0, 1, 2 and 3. The CSV’s particular value is retained for every division; no blanket rate, hotel percentage or standardized stay duration replaces those inputs.

Important league-period limitation: day-trip calculations on 21–28 day schedules may reflect recurring team entries rather than distinct out-of-market visits. Overnight figures may include residents or spending that would have occurred otherwise. A credible incremental impact estimate would require verified origin ZIP codes, visitor displacement, length-of-stay records, spending within county boundaries, attributable-versus-substitute spending and a local multiplier justified by independent study. These inputs were not provided.

No double counting: the modeled entry, gate, concessions, margin, modeled official expense, modeled tournament “net,” hotel collections or taxes are not added to the visitor-spending scenario. Any addition requires transaction-category reconciliation to detect overlapping dollars and identify distinct payer groups and geography.

5. League-versus-tournament presentation: gate concentrated in league play

$1,146,300 of the $1,405,400 modeled countywide gate—81.6%—comes from 47 division rows across 12 event links labeled League Play, which have a source-calculated entry-fee total of $0. Across preseason, play and postseason together, the three league-phase groups account for $1,281,800 of modeled gate (91.2%). Repeated league dates make admissions particularly sensitive to whether families were charged daily, per family, season-long, or not at all.

Phase mapping: blank source phase is not automatically a confirmed tournament or a canceled event. Four groups are mutually exclusive at division-row level and reconcile to 52 unique event URLs, 162 rows, 1,138 team participations, $1,405,400 gate and $477,783 modeled spending. Individual events in this county do not cross phase groups in this extract.

6. Facility-label, primary-host and address-verification tests

The municipal website identifies four baseball/softball fields at 1550 West Hope Avenue, while the 2008–2021 source rows use 1410 W Hope Avenue. On the current evidence, the complex itself has an official municipal listing, but the precise historical primary-field assignment per event, parcel boundaries and legal title remain unverified. The source crosswalk identifies an original single-county label, not an independent deed or site-plan verification.

Verification priority: obtain the 2008–2021 park field calendar, official facility name changes, street-address history, primary-field schedules, original USSSA event pages, city GIS maps and recorded title. If further documents show the historical labels covered a different site or a tribal, school, county or private facility, revise this article and recalculate geographic attribution before drawing conclusions.

7. Five zero-team rows with negative modeled games and officiating

All headline and reconciliation CSV numbers retain original signed dataset values. The nonnegative-floor figures above are a diagnostic sensitivity, not silently substituted tournament totals. The five records are in source event eventID=307605, associated division IDs 16633-1 through 16633-5. No actual attendance, played games, payouts or refunds can be inferred.

8. Municipal collaboration, access, organizations and public financing

The City of Vinita’s facility information provides a public contact and explains its facility-use permitting process. The City Council / Vinita Utilities Authority agenda center offers the municipal decision trail; its records could show whether field scheduling, taxpayer-supported maintenance, rental privileges, improvements, utilities, insurance or concession permissions were governed by council votes, staff policies or formal agreements.

Questions for collaborative verification include: (a) which organization operated the complex and under which dated agreements; (b) whether each league/tournament could charge admission and retain concessions; (c) whose bank account received fees; (d) what city, county, school, tribal or private resources supported fields; (e) how youth access, scholarship opportunities and local-team field allocation were balanced against outside tournaments; and (f) whether any event requirements restricted independent leagues or local vendors. None of those facts can be decided solely from the CSV.

Historical TournamentDirector, EventName, sports-sanctioning and facility fields record organizational associations in a private research extract; they do not establish fiduciary custody, contractual agency, governmental status, wrongdoing, or organizational tax-exempt classification. Any 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), tribal enterprise or private status requires the entity’s actual legal identity and independent IRS, state or tribal documents. Private organizations’ internal records are not automatically records accessible under the municipal Open Records Act.

Public finance framing: distinguish capital construction/renovation, general-fund operations, tourism-marketing grants, insurance and maintenance costs, bond or earmarked tax funding, facility fees, and volunteer contributions. Analyze public cost and measured benefit over the same time period, with shared facility uses documented; an economic-impact multiplier alone does not measure taxpayer return.

9. City financial audit versus Craig County State Auditor findings

City of Vinita — independent financial audit located

The City’s published financial statements for fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 were audited by Ober & Littlefield (auditor report dated February 15, 2023). The opinion reports fair presentation on the City’s stated modified-cash accounting basis, which is different from U.S. GAAP. That overall municipal financial-statement opinion is not a special audit of Bill Morgan Sports Complex, nor is it confirmation of any admission, concession or tournament model number. The located FY2021 PDF is not claimed to be the City’s latest available audit.

Craig County — State Auditor and Inspector FY2023

The Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector’s FY2023 Craig County financial and Alternative Compliance Examination report covers the year ended June 30, 2023, with an audit report dated August 27, 2025 and a transmittal dated September 8, 2025. It provides a fair-presentation opinion on the Oklahoma regulatory basis; the separate adverse U.S.-GAAP opinion results from use of a different accounting basis and must not be mischaracterized as a finding of fraud.

Separately, the county auditors reported four material weaknesses in internal control, numbered 2023-001, 2023-005, 2023-006 and 2023-007. Finding 2023-001 discusses repeated county-wide risk assessment and monitoring deficiencies; 2023-005 and 2023-006 include reported noncompliance matters. Those are official Craig County government audit findings, with audit-specific scope and management responses—not findings that the City of Vinita, Bill Morgan Sports Complex, a tournament director, a youth league or an event committed misconduct. A county audit cannot be merged with a municipality’s audit as if they tested identical funds.

10. Criminal jurisdiction, official court cases and legal-outcome verification

The Oklahoma District Attorneys Council directory places Craig County in Prosecutorial District 12 with Mayes and Rogers counties, under District Attorney Matt Ballard. Prosecutorial jurisdiction addresses alleged crimes arising in the appropriate locality; it does not confer routine city park management, tax-audit jurisdiction, administrative control of tournament operators or automatic authority to evaluate business-model assumptions. The District Attorneys Council itself offers administrative support rather than directing individual prosecutors.

The Oklahoma State Courts Network docket portal is a source to verify specific case numbers, parties, filings, rulings, appeals and outcomes when an identified matter is relevant. No Bill Morgan Sports Complex-related criminal or civil case number or final outcome was independently authenticated for this report. This is an unverified-case status, not an assertion that litigation does not exist or that allegations have been resolved. Auditor findings and open-records correspondence are not judicial determinations. An event listing or dataset anomaly provides no basis to imply guilt.

11. Oklahoma Open Records Act verification plan and tracking

The public records framework is the Oklahoma Open Records Act, 51 O.S. §§24A.1 et seq.; see the Oklahoma Department of Libraries’ statutory index. The following are proposed targeted requests, not requests sent in this run. Specific dates and reasonable subject matter can be narrowed with the custodian; disclosure of a particular record may depend on statutory exemptions, retention schedules and custodian location.

Submission tracker: As of October 27, 2026, no newly submitted City of Vinita or Craig County open-records request, acknowledgement, fee estimate, response deadline, partial production or denial is claimed by this article. When a request is actually filed, add submission timestamp, recipient, reference number, response and production/reconciliation results. Clearly label unanswered questions as questions.

12. Exact source columns, calculations and data hygiene

Data dictionary and units

EventUrl identifies a distinct source event listing; TournamentID in this export identifies division-level records, so treating the latter as an event ID would overcount. EventDivisionID, EventInformation, StartDate, EventName, LeaguePhase, Facility, Address, Municipality and County preserve the original grouping and provenance. TeamsEntered counts division entries, not deduplicated individual teams or unique people across seasons; all years are pooled historically and are not annualized.

Entry: TotalTeamEntryFee = TeamsEntered × EntryFeePerTeam. Gate: TotalEventGate = DailyFans × DailyAdmissionFee × TotalEventDays. Concessions: TotalEventConcession = TotalEventGate × 0.50 for this Craig extract. Scenario concession net: gross concessions × 0.30, × 0.50 or × 0.70, representing hypothetical margin assumptions before other event costs, not audit-based gross margin. All these are per division row then summed.

Game/officiating: TotalMinimumGamesPlayed is a stored source-model game estimate (not observed games); TotalEventUmpires = TotalMinimumGamesPlayed × UmpiresPerGame is assignment slots, not unique officials. TotalEventUmpireFees = TotalEventUmpires × UmpirePayPerGame is a modeled expense; all Craig rows show $40 per assignment slot, not independently supported actual payroll. Sanction: TotalUSSSASanctionFees = TeamUsssaSanctionFees + EventUsssaSanctionFees. None of these estimates is proof of money remitted to any entity.

Economic impact: source DayImpact = TeamsEntered × DayTripRate × DayStay; source OvernightImpact = TeamsEntered × NightTripRate × OverNightStay; row TotalEconomicImpactPerEvent = DayImpact + OvernightImpact. Row level is division, notwithstanding the misleading “PerEvent” column name. All 162 Craig division rows pass equality checks against these nine listed model formulas (zero mismatches each).

Reconciliation controls

County-level fields are exact sums of 162 rows with County = Craig. Nested municipality Vinita and facility Bill Morgan sums each independently equal county, with zero differences, while disjoint source LeaguePhase groups reconcile arithmetically to the county total. Signed raw values have not been cleaned away; five negative-model source rows appear in the issue register and the displayed sensitivity values in §7. Duplicate event URLs are deduplicated only when counting events; division rows are never deduplicated when aggregating money or modeled visitor activity.

Scope boundaries: 2008–2021 listings appear (no 2020 record within this Craig extract). Years not represented in the extract must not be interpreted as no events held. Data come from a preserved September 20, 2026 research CSV assembled from public-facing sports records; the official city webpage and government audits corroborate certain civic facts, but not the division-level financial model. Null event status, dates, divisions or input assumptions are not proof a scheduled game occurred. The study does not independently verify economic multipliers, inflation adjustments, year-specific dollar equivalence, ticket sales, concessions bought, overnight hotel occupancy, facility maintenance cost or public tax receipts.

13. Collaboration and public-benefit decision checklist

A credible comparison of tournament benefits and community access should join the City, actual facility operator(s), youth leagues, independent teams, tourism and financial offices, nearby schools or tribes only where a documentary role exists, and community representatives. For every historical event or operating season, verify: specific fields used, verified primary host, public subsidy, municipal opportunity costs, fee-policy equality, actual recurring practice and game schedules, access for low-income families and school teams, written vendor selection and conflict disclosures, contract renewal procedure, and audited revenue custody.

The desired result is a shared, comparable public-benefit ledger in which verifiable city costs, operator rights, youth participation, access, and community outcomes are transparent. Reporting an unresolved question is appropriate; treating an inference as a proved allegation is not.

14. Primary-source register and evidence grading

Evidence status vocabulary: Verified public source (a cited official record states a fact); Source-coded / modeled (a historical dataset field or formula, without proof of actual transaction); Corroborated venue (current municipal facility listing but no dated original event schedule); Unresolved (property title, primary-field assignment, historical address variance or receipts). Venue corroboration should never be silently upgraded into verified historical primary-host status.

15. Right of response, corrections and version control

Before treating any specific operating or public-finance question as a conclusion, seek written records and responses from the City of Vinita, the documented title holder (once known), the applicable facility operator, and the sanctioning organization. Invite corrections to source dates, facility names, addresses, cancelations, accounting definitions, classifications and rate/stay assumptions. A fair response window should be stated with any actual inquiries; no response or opportunity to respond is invented in this draft.

Corrections protocol: retain original dataset values and archived evidence; record the date, claimant, documentary basis and changes; add correction notes directly to this article and reissue reconciliation/issue-register files rather than editing history silently. Reclassify an ownership or venue question only when reliable documents support the change.

Edition: Day 12, research snapshot dated October 27, 2026. Publication status: WordPress-ready draft only—not published. Records request status: proposed, not submitted. Reconciliation: all nine checked formula identities pass for 162/162 source division rows.