Where the table comes from
Every payment TopFlight makes is set by the published Premier League table, so how that table reaches TopFlight is worth a page of its own.
A table is posted, and then it stands
A table is posted as a claim rather than as a fact. It stands for a window, and if nobody contradicts it before the window closes it goes into force.
The transaction that puts it into force can be sent by anyone at all. It needs no key, no permission and no relationship to TopFlight. A contradicting table posted inside the window holds both out of force until the disagreement is settled, so a table that two watchers disagree about waits for people rather than settling itself.
That is how a table reaches TopFlight today.
Disputes
The finished form is designed around UMA's optimistic oracle, a public service for settling disputed facts on chain, with a bond standing behind each posted table and behind each dispute.
Under that model one claim is on trial at a time. A dispute says that the posted table is false; it does not offer another table in its place. A rejected table settles nothing and is posted again.
So the case a wrong table has to get through is one that nobody disputes, and the bond, the window and TopFlight's own watcher are there for exactly that case.
What a wrong table can cost
A wrong table misdirects one period's yield: that day's pay, sent to the wrong places in the table.
It reaches nothing else. Every token stays where it is, at the price it has, held by whoever held it. The next posting replaces the wrong table, and the day after it pays on the right one.