NBA games

IND @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
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IND27223030109
NO44203430128

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (NO) / 10 (IND) games this season
IND away
home NO
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
Pascal Siakam S 31 22 5 3
Johnny Furphy 23 18 2 0
T.J. McConnell 18 16 4 8
Jay Huff S 21 9 6 2
Andrew Nembhard S 27 7 3 5
Jarace Walker 20 7 5 3
Ethan Thompson 19 7 2 2
Garrison Mathews 11 7 1 1
James Wiseman 15 6 3 0
Isaiah Jackson 12 4 5 1
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Zion Williamson 23 29 7 1
Saddiq Bey S 28 18 5 3
Derik Queen S 27 17 10 4
Trey Murphy III S 33 17 6 4
Jordan Poole 32 16 2 6
Micah Peavy 15 8 1 0
Karlo Matkovic 20 6 9 2
Herbert Jones S 12 5 3 3
Jeremiah Fears S 23 5 3 1
Yves Missi 3 4 1 0

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Saddiq Bey · 3PT (3 pts) · 11:15 Q1
"Saddiq Bey makes 25-foot running jump shot (Herbert Jones assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Derik Queen NO
12%
2 Saddiq Bey NO
11%
3 Jeremiah Fears NO
10%
4 Pascal Siakam IND
10%
5 Trey Murphy III NO
10%
6 Andrew Nembhard IND
9%
7 Herbert Jones NO
9%
8 James Wiseman IND
8%
9 Bennedict Mathurin IND
8%
10 Quenton Jackson IND
6%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
1%
Dunk
16%
Free Throw
21%
Jumper
33%
Layup
29%

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 Trey Murphy III NO 23.7 6.4 4.7
2 Pascal Siakam IND 23.5 6.5 3.5
3 Zion Williamson NO 21.5 5.5 3.9
4 Andrew Nembhard IND 19.6 3.2 6.9
5 Bennedict Mathurin IND 19.0 4.8 3.0
6 Saddiq Bey NO 18.7 7.1 2.6
7 Jordan Poole NO 18.6 2.6 3.8
8 Jeremiah Fears NO 17.4 4.2 4.1
9 Derik Queen NO 14.8 7.6 5.0
10 Jose Alvarado NO 11.0 3.2 3.9
11 Herbert Jones NO 10.8 3.9 2.1
12 Jay Huff IND 10.0 5.6 1.7
13 Quenton Jackson IND 9.2 2.9 2.8
14 T.J. McConnell IND 8.8 3.6 4.8
15 Jarace Walker IND 8.6 4.1 1.4
16 Isaiah Jackson IND 7.3 7.1 1.1
17 Ethan Thompson IND 6.1 2.0 1.5
18 Garrison Mathews IND 5.9 1.8 1.1
19 Yves Missi NO 5.9 6.8 1.1
20 James Wiseman IND 5.6 3.3 0.9
21 Karlo Matkovic NO 5.4 3.4 1.1
22 Micah Peavy NO 5.3 2.3 1.1
23 Jordan Hawkins NO 4.5 1.3 0.9
24 Johnny Furphy IND 3.7 2.1 0.7
25 Tony Bradley IND 3.7 2.2 0.7
26 Kevon Looney NO 2.6 2.7 0.8

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.