NBA games

NO @ PHX

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NO19373423113
PHX26243322105

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (PHX) / 10 (NO) games this season
NO away
home PHX
37% 63%

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 42 31 4 5
Zion Williamson S 40 29 10 7
Jose Alvarado 22 15 3 0
Trey Murphy III S 39 13 4 2
Dyson Daniels 28 10 6 2
Larry Nance Jr. 32 9 8 7
Herbert Jones S 34 4 5 3
Jonas Valanciunas S 4 2 2 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Bradley Beal S 39 33 3 5
Devin Booker S 39 25 3 7
Kevin Durant S 38 23 4 6
Grayson Allen S 37 11 5 1
Jusuf Nurkic S 31 6 10 6
Eric Gordon 18 5 0 2
Bol Bol 7 2 2 0
Royce O'Neale 14 0 2 1
Drew Eubanks 17 0 9 2

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Jonas Valanciunas · Jumper (2 pts) · 11:21 Q1
"Jonas Valanciunas makes 8-foot two point shot (Zion Williamson assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 CJ McCollum NO
13%
2 Zion Williamson NO
12%
3 Devin Booker PHX
11%
4 Kevin Durant PHX
10%
5 Jusuf Nurkic PHX
10%
6 Jonas Valanciunas NO
9%
7 Trey Murphy III NO
8%
8 Bradley Beal PHX
8%
9 Grayson Allen PHX
7%
10 Herbert Jones NO
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
17%
Dunk
2%
Free Throw
4%
Jumper
57%
Layup
19%

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 Devin Booker PHX 26.7 5.0 7.7
2 Zion Williamson NO 25.6 6.5 5.2
3 Kevin Durant PHX 23.8 6.9 4.4
4 CJ McCollum NO 22.9 4.4 6.1
5 Grayson Allen PHX 15.8 4.0 3.6
6 Trey Murphy III NO 14.2 6.5 2.8
7 Bradley Beal PHX 14.0 4.5 6.1
8 Herbert Jones NO 12.0 3.3 2.9
9 Jusuf Nurkic PHX 10.3 10.2 3.9
10 Jonas Valanciunas NO 9.9 6.5 1.5
11 Royce O'Neale PHX 8.2 4.0 1.5
12 Dyson Daniels NO 7.3 3.6 2.5
13 Eric Gordon PHX 7.1 2.0 1.5
14 Larry Nance Jr. NO 6.9 4.1 1.8
15 Bol Bol PHX 5.4 3.0 0.7
16 Jose Alvarado NO 5.3 2.0 1.6
17 Drew Eubanks PHX 4.8 3.9 0.8
18 Josh Okogie PHX 4.3 2.2 1.1
19 Matt Ryan NO 3.8 1.2 0.7
20 Jalen Crutcher NO 3.5 1.0 1.2
21 Thaddeus Young PHX 3.5 3.6 1.0
22 Jordan Hawkins NO 3.3 1.3 0.7
23 E.J. Liddell NO 2.8 1.4 0.6
24 Nassir Little PHX 2.8 1.1 0.6
25 Jeremiah Robinson-Earl NO 2.6 1.4 0.9
26 Isaiah Thomas PHX 2.5 1.0 0.6
27 Udoka Azubuike PHX 2.4 1.5 0.5
28 David Roddy PHX 2.1 1.2 0.5
29 Cody Zeller NO 1.1 1.9 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.