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NFL Sun, Oct 25 Final

Buccaneers @ Panthers

Simulated 1,000,000 times

TeamTypicalReal
TB Buccaneers 21 43
CAR Panthers 24 13

✗ A miss. The Panthers won 57% of the runs, but the Buccaneers won the real game, TB by 30. TB won by that much or more in 0.8% of runs.

Every run’s final margin

Typical · CAR by 3
Real · TB by 30
← TB by 35+ 0 CAR by 35+ →
Final margin in each of 1,000,000 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.

Passing yards

0400 SimReal
Baker Mayfield TB
231 64

Fewer than 1 in 1,000 runs went that low.

Jalon Daniels TB
0 0
Bryce Young CAR
278 163

About 3.5% of runs went that low.

Kenny Pickett CAR
0 47

Fewer than 1 in 1,000 runs went that high.

Rushing yards

0150 SimReal
Bucky Irving TB
76 106
Kenny Gainwell TB
12 88

About 0.6% of runs went that high.

Chuba Hubbard CAR
78 33

About 9.3% of runs went that low.

Receiving yards

0150 SimReal
Chris Godwin Jr. TB
47 27
Cade Otton TB
45 0

About 2.8% of runs went that low.

Ted Hurst III TB
31 0

About 7.4% of runs went that low.

Tetairoa McMillan CAR
74 40
Jalen Coker CAR
54 9

About 7.3% of runs went that low.

Darren Waller CAR
29 50
Tommy Tremble CAR
25 8
John Metchie III CAR
19 20

The typical game

Not an average: one real run out of the 1,000,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them. TB 21, CAR 24.

Buccaneers
Player PASSRUSHRECTD
Baker Mayfield QB 19/38 · 2271 · -22
Jalon Daniels QB 3 · 14
Bucky Irving RB 15 · 693 · 261
Chris Godwin Jr. WR 1 · 206 · 52
Cade Otton TE 5 · 52
Ted Hurst III WR 3 · 371
Kenny Gainwell RB 3 · 21 · 33
Tez Johnson WR 1 · 61 · 271
Sean Tucker RB 2 · 11
Panthers
Player PASSRUSHRECTD
Bryce Young QB 22/32 · 2605 · 282
Chuba Hubbard RB 20 · 941 · 91
Tetairoa McMillan WR 8 · 94
Jalen Coker WR 4 · 431
Darren Waller TE 3 · 32
Tommy Tremble TE 2 · 32
John Metchie III WR 2 · 26
Brycen Tremayne WR 1 · 13
Mitchell Evans TE 1 · 11

What went in

  • Plays: every snap both teams (and their opponents) have run in 2026, ESPN play-by-play.
  • Out: Emeka Egbuka · AJ Dillon, Haynes King, Ja'Tavion Sanders. Injury report as of Sunday morning.
  • 1,000,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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