NBA games

SA @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5T
SA3027252513120
NO273122279116

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 5 (NO) / 6 (SA) games this season
SA away
home NO
67% 33%

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
Victor Wembanyama S 32 29 11 2
Devin Vassell S 40 23 5 1
Stephon Castle S 33 16 6 6
Luke Kornet 35 14 12 4
Dylan Harper 26 13 5 3
Keldon Johnson 19 8 10 1
Harrison Barnes S 34 7 1 5
Julian Champagnie S 36 7 8 3
Jordan McLaughlin 6 3 0 0
Carter Bryant 3 0 1 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Zion Williamson S 37 27 10 7
Trey Murphy III S 46 24 10 5
Jordan Poole S 41 21 4 5
Derik Queen 35 15 6 1
Jeremiah Fears 29 13 4 1
Saddiq Bey S 28 9 3 2
Jordan Hawkins 18 7 1 1
Jose Alvarado 3 0 0 0
Herbert Jones S 28 0 7 2

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Zion Williamson · Dunk (2 pts) · 11:44 Q1
"Zion Williamson makes driving dunk"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Zion Williamson NO
14%
2 Stephon Castle SA
14%
3 Jordan Poole NO
13%
4 Trey Murphy III NO
12%
5 Herbert Jones NO
11%
6 Devin Vassell SA
11%
7 Victor Wembanyama SA
10%
8 Julian Champagnie SA
8%
9 Harrison Barnes SA
7%
10 Keldon Johnson SA
0%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
2%
Dunk
53%
Free Throw
8%
Jumper
13%
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 Victor Wembanyama SA 24.5 10.9 3.8
2 Stephon Castle SA 21.5 4.5 6.6
3 Zion Williamson NO 17.8 6.3 4.9
4 Jeremiah Fears NO 15.2 3.6 3.0
5 Jordan Poole NO 14.6 2.3 2.9
6 Trey Murphy III NO 14.3 4.6 2.1
7 Devin Vassell SA 13.4 4.4 3.0
8 Keldon Johnson SA 13.1 4.2 1.4
9 Saddiq Bey NO 12.1 4.4 2.3
10 Dylan Harper SA 11.4 2.4 4.0
11 Herbert Jones NO 11.4 4.5 1.8
12 Luke Kornet SA 10.3 6.8 1.7
13 Jordan Hawkins NO 10.2 2.5 1.2
14 Julian Champagnie SA 10.0 3.0 1.7
15 Carter Bryant SA 7.4 3.0 1.5
16 Harrison Barnes SA 6.5 2.4 1.8
17 David Jones Garcia SA 5.9 2.6 2.2
18 Micah Peavy NO 5.0 2.2 1.1
19 Hunter Dickinson NO 4.9 2.7 1.0
20 Harrison Ingram SA 4.4 2.7 0.8
21 Jose Alvarado NO 3.9 1.5 1.7
22 Riley Minix SA 3.3 1.7 1.2
23 Bismack Biyombo SA 2.7 2.7 0.5
24 Bryce McGowens NO 2.7 0.9 0.3
25 Trey Alexander NO 2.3 0.9 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.