NBA games

MIA @ NO

NBA Smoothie King Center ·Final
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Final
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
MIA31273827123
NO25303026111

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Last 10 (NO) / 10 (MIA) games this season
MIA 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
Bam Adebayo S 37 27 14 4
Jaime Jaquez Jr. 35 23 8 4
Kel'el Ware S 28 16 12 0
Simone Fontecchio S 27 15 4 1
Kasparas Jakucionis 25 11 3 4
Davion Mitchell S 28 9 1 5
Myron Gardner S 23 8 10 3
Nikola Jovic 18 8 1 0
Dru Smith 20 6 3 4
Player MIN PTS REB AST
Zion Williamson S 33 25 4 3
Trey Murphy III S 27 19 4 6
Saddiq Bey S 36 14 9 4
Jeremiah Fears 31 13 10 8
Bryce McGowens 21 12 1 3
Derik Queen S 31 12 5 0
Herbert Jones S 33 7 4 2
Kevon Looney 14 6 9 0
Karlo Matkovic 13 3 0 1

First basket

scorer · ROC 0.80
Trained on 67736 player-games
Actual
Kel'el Ware · 3PT (3 pts) · 11:50 Q1
"Kel'el Ware makes 23-foot three point jumper (Bam Adebayo assists)"
Most likely first scorer (top 10)
1 Zion Williamson NO
17%
2 Trey Murphy III NO
16%
3 Andrew Wiggins MIA
10%
4 Bam Adebayo MIA
10%
5 Saddiq Bey NO
10%
6 Derik Queen NO
8%
7 Kel'el Ware MIA
7%
8 Herbert Jones NO
7%
9 Davion Mitchell MIA
7%
10 Simone Fontecchio MIA
7%
Method (given top scorer)
3PT
1%
Dunk
33%
Free Throw
16%
Jumper
22%
Layup
27%

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 23.2 4.4 5.2
2 Saddiq Bey NO 23.0 6.1 3.8
3 Bam Adebayo MIA 21.3 11.3 3.4
4 Zion Williamson NO 20.0 8.0 4.1
5 Andrew Wiggins MIA 16.5 5.7 3.0
6 Jaime Jaquez Jr. MIA 15.9 6.5 5.0
7 Derik Queen NO 12.1 6.6 4.1
8 Jeremiah Fears NO 9.9 3.5 2.2
9 Davion Mitchell MIA 9.7 2.9 5.2
10 Bryce McGowens NO 9.0 2.1 1.6
11 Herbert Jones NO 8.8 3.7 3.3
12 Simone Fontecchio MIA 8.7 4.2 1.8
13 Kel'el Ware MIA 8.5 5.7 0.9
14 Kasparas Jakucionis MIA 8.4 3.0 3.2
15 Jordan Poole NO 7.9 1.7 1.9
16 Dru Smith MIA 7.2 3.6 3.3
17 Yves Missi NO 6.6 6.7 1.4
18 Nikola Jovic MIA 6.0 3.0 1.1
19 Myron Gardner MIA 5.7 3.9 1.6
20 Karlo Matkovic NO 5.2 3.5 1.0
21 Jordan Hawkins NO 4.3 2.3 1.0
22 Jahmir Young MIA 3.9 1.2 0.9
23 Kevon Looney NO 2.9 4.9 1.0
24 Keshad Johnson MIA 2.2 0.8 0.3
25 Vladislav Goldin MIA 1.9 1.1 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.