Combined receipts for the spinel A-site preference ladder: CHGNet 0.4.2 and MACE-MP-0 small static energies for all three two-f.u. arrangements (gamma 0, 0.5, 1) across MnFe2O4, CoFe2O4, NiFe2O4, CuFe2O4, ZnFe2O4, MgAl2O4 on the frozen ZnFe2O4 oxygen sublattice, plus crystal-field and GGA+U reference notes.