NBA games

NO @ MIL

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NO32312430117
MIL36393729141

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (MIL) / 10 (NO) games this season
NO away
home MIL
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
Brandon Ingram S 28 26 6 1
Zion Williamson S 29 23 2 2
Jonas Valanciunas S 24 13 10 6
Larry Nance Jr. 18 10 5 0
Herbert Jones S 20 9 0 0
Jordan Hawkins 29 8 7 1
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl 7 8 3 0
Naji Marshall 15 8 1 1
CJ McCollum S 23 7 1 4
Jose Alvarado 21 4 1 2
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Giannis Antetokounmpo S 29 30 12 4
Damian Lillard S 29 26 6 9
Brook Lopez S 35 24 3 0
Bobby Portis 22 20 7 2
Cameron Payne 18 11 2 5
Malik Beasley S 28 8 4 2
MarJon Beauchamp 6 6 0 0
Jae Crowder S 22 5 4 1
Pat Connaughton 20 5 3 4
Andre Jackson Jr. 17 3 2 2

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Damian Lillard · 3PT (3 pts) · 11:20 Q1
"Damian Lillard makes 29-foot three point shot (Giannis Antetokounmpo assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Damian Lillard MIL
18%
2 Zion Williamson NO
12%
3 Jonas Valanciunas NO
12%
4 Brandon Ingram NO
11%
5 Trey Murphy III NO
9%
6 Brook Lopez MIL
9%
7 CJ McCollum NO
9%
8 Giannis Antetokounmpo MIL
7%
9 Herbert Jones NO
7%
10 Malik Beasley MIL
6%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
22%
Dunk
3%
Free Throw
16%
Jumper
35%
Layup
24%

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 Giannis Antetokounmpo MIL 30.9 11.7 8.9
2 Damian Lillard MIL 24.9 3.9 6.8
3 Zion Williamson NO 23.1 4.8 5.6
4 CJ McCollum NO 20.4 4.8 5.0
5 Brandon Ingram NO 18.0 5.0 6.6
6 Jonas Valanciunas NO 14.0 9.4 2.1
7 Brook Lopez MIL 13.2 7.6 2.5
8 Herbert Jones NO 11.8 3.4 2.2
9 Bobby Portis MIL 11.3 6.1 1.1
10 Jordan Hawkins NO 11.1 2.6 1.8
11 Malik Beasley MIL 10.9 3.3 1.6
12 Trey Murphy III NO 9.9 3.4 2.1
13 Larry Nance Jr. NO 8.2 5.1 2.1
14 Jae Crowder MIL 7.3 3.1 1.1
15 Naji Marshall NO 6.7 2.5 1.3
16 Jose Alvarado NO 6.7 2.0 1.7
17 Dyson Daniels NO 6.5 3.2 2.7
18 Pat Connaughton MIL 6.1 1.9 1.3
19 Cameron Payne MIL 5.7 1.4 1.3
20 MarJon Beauchamp MIL 4.0 1.9 0.9
21 Andre Jackson Jr. MIL 3.9 3.5 0.9
22 Jeremiah Robinson-Earl NO 3.7 2.5 0.7
23 AJ Green MIL 3.6 1.0 0.7
24 Cody Zeller NO 3.4 2.6 0.9
25 E.J. Liddell NO 3.1 1.7 0.7
26 Robin Lopez MIL 2.0 0.7 0.5
27 Thanasis Antetokounmpo MIL 1.9 1.0 0.6
28 Chris Livingston MIL 1.6 1.0 0.4

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.