NBA games

IND @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
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IND26301630102
NO48293121129

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (NO) / 10 (IND) games this season
IND away
home NO
42% 58%

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
Bennedict Mathurin 20 13 2 1
Isaiah Jackson 18 13 11 1
Pascal Siakam S 20 12 2 3
Myles Turner S 19 12 5 0
Andrew Nembhard S 30 10 0 4
Aaron Nesmith S 21 9 3 3
Jalen Smith 11 9 3 0
T.J. McConnell 17 8 4 3
Jarace Walker 27 6 7 6
Obi Toppin 16 5 2 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Brandon Ingram S 30 34 8 6
Trey Murphy III 28 28 7 1
Jonas Valanciunas S 26 15 9 3
CJ McCollum S 25 14 4 1
Jose Alvarado 25 9 3 2
Zion Williamson S 21 8 3 7
Jordan Hawkins 7 6 1 0
Herbert Jones S 26 6 1 1
Larry Nance Jr. 15 4 3 3
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl 4 2 0 0

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Pascal Siakam · 3PT (3 pts) · 11:37 Q1
"Pascal Siakam makes 22-foot three point jumper (Aaron Nesmith assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Pascal Siakam IND
13%
2 Zion Williamson NO
11%
3 Myles Turner IND
10%
4 Brandon Ingram NO
10%
5 Aaron Nesmith IND
9%
6 Herbert Jones NO
8%
7 Jonas Valanciunas NO
8%
8 CJ McCollum NO
8%
9 Bennedict Mathurin IND
8%
10 Andrew Nembhard IND
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
18%
Dunk
7%
Free Throw
11%
Jumper
33%
Layup
31%

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 Zion Williamson NO 24.8 6.3 6.6
2 Brandon Ingram NO 24.6 5.4 6.6
3 Pascal Siakam IND 21.7 6.7 4.8
4 CJ McCollum NO 18.5 4.5 4.1
5 Tyrese Haliburton IND 18.3 3.7 10.0
6 Myles Turner IND 17.5 7.6 1.9
7 Bennedict Mathurin IND 16.3 5.4 2.9
8 Herbert Jones NO 15.4 4.4 2.8
9 Aaron Nesmith IND 13.8 4.3 2.2
10 Trey Murphy III NO 12.7 4.5 2.3
11 Jalen Smith IND 10.3 6.1 1.3
12 Andrew Nembhard IND 10.1 2.7 3.4
13 Jonas Valanciunas NO 10.1 8.1 1.5
14 T.J. McConnell IND 9.5 3.1 5.3
15 Obi Toppin IND 7.4 3.3 1.7
16 Naji Marshall NO 6.7 3.6 2.2
17 Matt Ryan NO 6.2 2.2 1.0
18 Larry Nance Jr. NO 6.1 4.9 2.2
19 Jose Alvarado NO 6.1 2.4 1.8
20 Isaiah Jackson IND 5.6 3.7 0.7
21 Jordan Hawkins NO 4.9 1.7 0.8
22 Jarace Walker IND 3.4 1.7 0.8
23 Jeremiah Robinson-Earl NO 3.1 1.7 0.6
24 James Johnson IND 2.1 1.1 0.9
25 Oscar Tshiebwe IND 1.8 1.1 0.3
26 Cody Zeller NO 1.7 1.6 0.4
27 Kendall Brown IND 1.4 0.6 0.3

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.