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NBA Tue, Oct 27 Final

Trail Blazers @ Lakers

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamTypicalReal
POR Trail Blazers 116 136
LAL Lakers 120 129

✗ A miss. The Lakers won 60% of the runs, but the Trail Blazers won the real game, POR by 7. POR won by that much or more in 27% of runs.

Every run’s final margin

Typical · LAL by 4
Real · POR by 7
← POR by 30+ 0 LAL by 30+ →
Final margin in each of 10,000 runs. Taller bar, more runs ended that way.

Player by player

The bar is the middle 80% of runs, the yellow tick the median, the dot what really happened. 10 of 17 landed within 3 points of the sim.

050 SimReal
Deni Avdija POR
20 23
Damian Lillard POR
18 21
Ja Morant POR
16 23
Jrue Holiday POR
13 22

861 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Toumani Camara POR
12 12
Donovan Clingan POR
10 9
Scoot Henderson POR
10 2

329 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Micah Potter POR
8 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Sidy Cissoko POR
5 6
Luka Doncic LAL
29 41

767 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Austin Reaves LAL
21 26
Walker Kessler LAL
12 13
Quentin Grimes LAL
12 2

205 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Ziaire Williams LAL
11 11
Sandro Mamukelashvili LAL
10 17

886 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Collin Sexton LAL
9 9
Jake LaRavia LAL
7 5
Matisse Thybulle LAL
7 5

The typical game

Not an average: one real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them. POR 116, LAL 120.

Trail Blazers
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Damian Lillard 17525-102-5
Deni Avdija 24518-192-7
Toumani Camara 9812-62-5
Jrue Holiday 11645-111-6
Ja Morant 16345-140-5
Donovan Clingan 111615-71-2
Scoot Henderson 5172-81-6
Sidy Cissoko 12415-82-3
Micah Potter 11514-93-8
Lakers
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Austin Reaves 22676-120-1
Luka Doncic 3010412-234-11
Walker Kessler 11804-51-2
Quentin Grimes 12214-102-5
Ziaire Williams 15514-111-6
Jake LaRavia 4321-30-1
Sandro Mamukelashvili 12825-82-5
Matisse Thybulle 4111-70-4
Collin Sexton 10104-81-3

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season, ESPN; each shot adjusted for tonight's defense.
  • Out: Sharpe, Youngblood · Thiero. Henderson, Carlson (day-to-day) play.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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