NBA games

NO @ MEM

NBA FedExForum ·Final
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Final
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NO25322529111
MEM28192334104

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 5 (MEM) / 4 (NO) games this season
NO away
home MEM
78% 22%

GBT team-winner trained on ~3 seasons of NBA games (68.8% holdout accuracy). Features: 10-game rolling form / points-for / points-against diff + rest days + back-to-back flags.

Box score

Player MIN PTS REB AST
CJ McCollum S 37 24 4 6
Zion Williamson S 32 23 7 3
Brandon Ingram S 36 19 7 6
Herbert Jones S 38 13 8 3
Jonas Valanciunas S 29 12 12 1
Matt Ryan 14 9 1 1
Dyson Daniels 19 6 5 0
Jordan Hawkins 9 3 0 2
Larry Nance Jr. 15 2 8 0
Kira Lewis Jr. 11 0 0 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Desmond Bane S 36 31 5 5
Marcus Smart S 32 17 0 3
Xavier Tillman S 34 17 12 4
Ziaire Williams S 29 9 4 0
David Roddy 28 9 5 2
Derrick Rose 16 8 2 3
Jaren Jackson Jr. S 36 8 5 3
Luke Kennard 15 3 2 2
Jake LaRavia 15 2 2 1

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Xavier Tillman · Dunk (2 pts) · 11:38 Q1
"Xavier Tillman Sr. makes dunk (Desmond Bane assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Jaren Jackson Jr. MEM
14%
2 Brandon Ingram NO
12%
3 Zion Williamson NO
11%
4 Derrick Rose MEM
10%
5 CJ McCollum NO
10%
6 Desmond Bane MEM
9%
7 Xavier Tillman MEM
9%
8 Herbert Jones NO
9%
9 Jonas Valanciunas NO
9%
10 Ziaire Williams MEM
8%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
29%
Dunk
17%
Free Throw
7%
Jumper
34%
Layup
13%

Per-player binary classifier — features: starter status, recent PPG/FGA/3PM, starter-rate, home/away. Probabilities normalized so the field sums to 100%.

Statlab projections

Trained on 68258 player-games; PTS MAE 4.7 (naive 6.8)
# Player Team Pred PTS Pred REB Pred AST
1 Desmond Bane MEM 24.5 4.8 5.0
2 Jaren Jackson Jr. MEM 14.8 6.0 2.4
3 Brandon Ingram NO 13.4 5.1 3.5
4 Zion Williamson NO 12.5 4.3 3.7
5 CJ McCollum NO 12.1 3.3 2.5
6 Jake LaRavia MEM 11.6 4.7 1.8
7 Ziaire Williams MEM 11.5 3.8 1.7
8 David Roddy MEM 10.7 4.7 2.1
9 Dyson Daniels NO 9.6 4.1 2.1
10 Jordan Hawkins NO 8.9 2.1 1.4
11 Kenneth Lofton Jr. MEM 8.9 3.2 1.8
12 Kira Lewis Jr. NO 7.6 1.8 1.7
13 Xavier Tillman MEM 7.4 6.1 1.3
14 Jonas Valanciunas NO 6.4 6.1 1.3
15 Derrick Rose MEM 6.2 1.6 4.1
16 Herbert Jones NO 5.9 3.0 0.9
17 Luke Kennard MEM 5.6 1.6 1.6
18 GG Jackson MEM 5.1 1.4 0.6
19 Jacob Gilyard MEM 5.0 2.4 4.6
20 Matt Ryan NO 4.3 2.1 1.5
21 E.J. Liddell NO 4.1 2.7 1.0
22 Kaiser Gates NO 3.2 0.7 0.8

GBT MultiOutput regressor per player — 9 targets (PTS/REB/AST/STL/BLK/TO/MIN/FG/3PT). Features: rolling form last 10 games + opponent allowed averages + rest days. Sorted by predicted PTS.