NBA games

DEN @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5T
DEN2831223813132
NO2938262610129

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (NO) / 10 (DEN) games this season
DEN away
home NO
53% 47%

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
Nikola Jokic S 43 27 13 10
Jamal Murray S 41 27 8 4
Russell Westbrook 36 21 5 5
Aaron Gordon S 35 17 8 3
Julian Strawther 20 13 1 1
Christian Braun S 39 10 6 5
Michael Porter Jr. S 23 8 4 1
Peyton Watson 18 5 5 5
DeAndre Jordan 10 4 4 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Jordan Hawkins 34 25 1 1
CJ McCollum S 39 24 6 9
Trey Murphy III S 27 21 8 3
Yves Missi S 40 21 9 1
Dejounte Murray S 44 17 8 15
Brandon Boston 15 8 1 0
Herbert Jones S 39 8 6 6
Daniel Theis 13 3 3 2
Javonte Green 14 2 1 0

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Jamal Murray · Free Throw (1 pts) · 11:55 Q1
"Jamal Murray makes free throw 1 of 2"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 CJ McCollum NO
13%
2 Jamal Murray DEN
10%
3 Michael Porter Jr. DEN
10%
4 Dejounte Murray NO
10%
5 Yves Missi NO
10%
6 Nikola Jokic DEN
9%
7 Herbert Jones NO
8%
8 Aaron Gordon DEN
8%
9 Trey Murphy III NO
8%
10 Christian Braun DEN
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
22%
Dunk
6%
Free Throw
24%
Jumper
32%
Layup
17%

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 Nikola Jokic DEN 30.4 12.0 9.4
2 CJ McCollum NO 22.6 4.4 4.6
3 Jamal Murray DEN 21.1 4.2 7.1
4 Trey Murphy III NO 20.5 4.4 3.1
5 Michael Porter Jr. DEN 19.6 7.0 3.4
6 Dejounte Murray NO 19.5 6.8 8.6
7 Aaron Gordon DEN 14.7 5.6 3.5
8 Russell Westbrook DEN 14.6 4.4 6.6
9 Herbert Jones NO 14.2 4.1 3.1
10 Christian Braun DEN 14.1 5.3 2.3
11 Yves Missi NO 13.0 10.7 1.3
12 Jose Alvarado NO 12.8 2.8 4.9
13 Brandon Boston NO 12.4 3.2 2.0
14 Jordan Hawkins NO 10.6 3.0 1.6
15 Julian Strawther DEN 9.5 2.5 1.7
16 Peyton Watson DEN 8.0 3.2 1.5
17 Javonte Green NO 6.6 3.7 1.2
18 Jeremiah Robinson-Earl NO 6.3 4.2 1.4
19 Antonio Reeves NO 5.4 1.6 0.9
20 Hunter Tyson DEN 4.1 2.1 0.8
21 Daniel Theis NO 3.5 2.5 0.9
22 Dario Saric DEN 3.4 2.5 0.9
23 DeAndre Jordan DEN 3.3 3.8 1.1
24 Jalen Pickett DEN 2.5 0.8 1.4
25 Zeke Nnaji DEN 1.8 0.7 0.4
26 Spencer Jones DEN 1.8 0.7 0.3
27 PJ Hall DEN 1.7 0.5 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.