NBA games

LAC @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
LAC26303619111
NO2615272795

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (NO) / 10 (LAC) games this season
LAC away
home NO
51% 49%

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
Paul George S 30 24 7 1
Kawhi Leonard S 30 19 9 2
Ivica Zubac S 23 15 8 2
Norman Powell 25 13 3 2
James Harden S 29 8 3 13
Mason Plumlee 7 8 2 0
Russell Westbrook 22 8 5 5
Terance Mann S 17 8 3 1
Amir Coffey 21 4 3 0
Daniel Theis 17 2 5 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Jonas Valanciunas S 23 13 11 1
Jordan Hawkins 6 13 1 0
Zion Williamson S 19 12 6 1
CJ McCollum S 31 12 6 3
Brandon Ingram S 30 12 1 4
Naji Marshall 17 9 3 1
Herbert Jones S 25 9 0 2
Larry Nance Jr. 19 7 6 2
Trey Murphy III 17 3 2 1
Dyson Daniels 26 2 3 3

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
CJ McCollum · 3PT (3 pts) · 11:37 Q1
"CJ McCollum makes 27-foot three point jumper (Brandon Ingram assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Kawhi Leonard LAC
15%
2 Jonas Valanciunas NO
12%
3 Brandon Ingram NO
12%
4 Zion Williamson NO
11%
5 Ivica Zubac LAC
10%
6 Paul George LAC
10%
7 CJ McCollum NO
8%
8 Terance Mann LAC
8%
9 Herbert Jones NO
7%
10 James Harden LAC
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
11%
Dunk
2%
Free Throw
68%
Jumper
6%
Layup
14%

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 Kawhi Leonard LAC 28.4 5.5 4.0
2 Zion Williamson NO 24.1 7.1 4.9
3 Brandon Ingram NO 22.8 4.7 6.3
4 Paul George LAC 22.7 4.9 4.2
5 James Harden LAC 21.2 5.1 9.2
6 CJ McCollum NO 19.5 4.2 5.3
7 Jonas Valanciunas NO 15.4 9.9 2.6
8 Norman Powell LAC 14.8 3.3 1.5
9 Trey Murphy III NO 13.3 3.8 1.9
10 Ivica Zubac LAC 11.7 10.4 1.7
11 Russell Westbrook LAC 11.4 6.2 3.9
12 Herbert Jones NO 10.0 2.8 2.0
13 Terance Mann LAC 7.6 2.8 1.5
14 Amir Coffey LAC 7.6 2.5 1.4
15 Jose Alvarado NO 7.4 2.9 1.5
16 Daniel Theis LAC 6.6 2.7 0.8
17 Naji Marshall NO 6.3 2.4 1.9
18 Larry Nance Jr. NO 5.4 5.0 1.1
19 Dyson Daniels NO 5.4 2.2 1.4
20 Mason Plumlee LAC 5.2 4.4 1.1
21 Jordan Hawkins NO 4.9 1.4 0.8
22 Jeremiah Robinson-Earl NO 4.5 2.6 0.9
23 Brandon Boston LAC 3.8 1.0 0.6
24 Kobe Brown LAC 3.4 1.3 0.8
25 P.J. Tucker LAC 3.3 2.0 0.9
26 Bones Hyland LAC 2.9 0.6 1.0
27 Cody Zeller NO 2.9 2.2 1.0

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.