NBA games

NO @ MIL

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Final
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NO343634249137
MIL3033362913141

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (MIL) / 10 (NO) games this season
NO away
home MIL
76% 24%

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
Trey Murphy III S 40 44 6 6
Saddiq Bey S 35 22 3 2
Zion Williamson S 38 20 5 8
Jeremiah Fears 20 13 2 4
Jose Alvarado 17 9 5 1
Karlo Matkovic 15 7 3 1
Herbert Jones S 36 7 2 2
Yves Missi 31 7 7 1
Derik Queen S 22 6 3 7
Micah Peavy 12 2 2 0
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Ryan Rollins S 40 27 4 4
AJ Green S 36 20 3 2
Kevin Porter Jr. 29 18 6 9
Pete Nance 19 16 3 3
Myles Turner S 29 16 9 1
Amir Coffey S 25 16 5 1
Gary Trent Jr. 24 13 0 2
Jericho Sims 28 8 6 4
Kyle Kuzma S 31 7 6 9
Andre Jackson Jr. 5 0 1 1

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Saddiq Bey · 3PT (3 pts) · 10:20 Q1
"Saddiq Bey makes 26-foot three point jumper (Zion Williamson assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Zion Williamson NO
17%
2 Trey Murphy III NO
13%
3 Myles Turner MIL
11%
4 Ryan Rollins MIL
10%
5 Saddiq Bey NO
10%
6 Kyle Kuzma MIL
9%
7 Derik Queen NO
9%
8 Amir Coffey MIL
8%
9 Herbert Jones NO
7%
10 AJ Green MIL
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
2%
Dunk
11%
Free Throw
19%
Jumper
29%
Layup
39%

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 21.2 4.4 4.3
2 Saddiq Bey NO 20.0 5.7 3.1
3 Zion Williamson NO 20.0 8.4 3.7
4 Ryan Rollins MIL 17.0 5.5 5.5
5 Kyle Kuzma MIL 15.8 5.7 3.3
6 Myles Turner MIL 15.2 5.9 1.9
7 Kevin Porter Jr. MIL 14.7 4.7 7.0
8 Derik Queen NO 11.6 6.9 4.0
9 AJ Green MIL 10.4 2.8 1.9
10 Herbert Jones NO 9.8 3.5 2.8
11 Jeremiah Fears NO 8.6 3.7 1.9
12 Jordan Poole NO 7.7 1.6 1.8
13 Yves Missi NO 7.4 7.3 1.6
14 Jose Alvarado NO 7.3 2.5 2.9
15 Cole Anthony MIL 6.3 2.4 2.3
16 Gary Trent Jr. MIL 6.1 1.5 1.3
17 Pete Nance MIL 6.1 3.1 0.9
18 Karlo Matkovic NO 5.1 3.2 0.8
19 Micah Peavy NO 4.8 1.6 0.9
20 Amir Coffey MIL 3.5 1.5 0.6
21 Andre Jackson Jr. MIL 3.3 1.5 0.8
22 Jericho Sims MIL 3.3 2.8 0.6
23 Jordan Hawkins NO 2.9 1.7 0.5
24 Kevon Looney NO 2.8 4.7 0.9
25 Thanasis Antetokounmpo MIL 2.7 1.7 0.6

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.