NBA games

BKN @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
BKN1816242785
NO32272627112

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (NO) / 10 (BKN) games this season
BKN away
home NO
17% 83%

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
Cameron Johnson S 26 17 4 2
Mikal Bridges S 29 13 3 2
Day'Ron Sharpe 17 12 9 2
Dennis Smith Jr. 20 9 1 4
Jalen Wilson 12 8 4 2
Nic Claxton S 23 8 3 1
Harry Giles III 8 6 3 1
Armoni Brooks 8 5 1 0
Trendon Watford 7 4 1 1
Dorian Finney-Smith S 20 3 4 1
Player MIN PTS REB AST
CJ McCollum S 25 16 6 5
Herbert Jones S 24 14 4 1
Jose Alvarado 22 13 3 2
Brandon Ingram S 25 12 5 5
Jordan Hawkins 26 11 0 1
Jonas Valanciunas S 20 11 12 0
Zion Williamson S 26 10 3 5
Dyson Daniels 20 7 2 3
Larry Nance Jr. 20 6 8 0
Naji Marshall 16 6 2 1

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Brandon Ingram · 3PT (3 pts) · 11:23 Q1
"Brandon Ingram makes 26-foot three point jumper (Zion Williamson assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Jonas Valanciunas NO
13%
2 Zion Williamson NO
13%
3 Brandon Ingram NO
11%
4 Mikal Bridges BKN
11%
5 Nic Claxton BKN
11%
6 Spencer Dinwiddie BKN
9%
7 Cameron Johnson BKN
9%
8 Herbert Jones NO
8%
9 CJ McCollum NO
8%
10 Dorian Finney-Smith BKN
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
12%
Dunk
15%
Free Throw
11%
Jumper
23%
Layup
38%

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 Brandon Ingram NO 25.5 4.6 6.2
2 Zion Williamson NO 23.5 7.5 4.7
3 CJ McCollum NO 20.6 4.3 5.2
4 Cam Thomas BKN 20.1 2.7 2.5
5 Jonas Valanciunas NO 17.9 11.6 3.1
6 Mikal Bridges BKN 17.6 4.1 3.8
7 Cameron Johnson BKN 14.4 3.8 2.0
8 Spencer Dinwiddie BKN 14.0 4.6 6.2
9 Nic Claxton BKN 12.0 10.3 2.1
10 Dorian Finney-Smith BKN 8.7 4.0 1.3
11 Herbert Jones NO 8.6 3.2 2.2
12 Dennis Smith Jr. BKN 8.4 3.5 4.3
13 Day'Ron Sharpe BKN 8.2 7.2 2.1
14 Naji Marshall NO 7.7 2.9 2.7
15 Royce O'Neale BKN 7.1 3.3 2.4
16 Jose Alvarado NO 6.2 2.8 1.6
17 Larry Nance Jr. NO 5.6 4.2 1.1
18 Trendon Watford BKN 5.2 2.5 1.6
19 Jordan Hawkins NO 5.1 1.7 0.9
20 Dyson Daniels NO 5.0 2.2 1.4
21 Jeremiah Robinson-Earl NO 3.9 1.9 0.7
22 Harry Giles III BKN 3.7 2.0 0.3
23 Armoni Brooks BKN 3.4 1.2 0.6
24 Jalen Wilson BKN 3.0 1.5 0.6
25 Cody Zeller NO 2.5 2.3 1.1
26 Kira Lewis Jr. NO 2.5 0.8 1.1

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.