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NBA Thu, Oct 22 Final

Cavaliers @ 76ers

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamTypicalReal
CLE Cavaliers 119 106
PHI 76ers 113 114

✗ A miss. The Cavaliers won 65% of the runs, but the 76ers won the real game, PHI by 8. PHI won by that much or more in 21% of runs.

Every run’s final margin

Typical · CLE by 6
Real · PHI by 8
← CLE by 30+ 0 PHI 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. 8 of 16 landed within 3 points of the sim.

040 SimReal
Donovan Mitchell CLE
21 32

782 of 10,000 runs went that high.

James Harden CLE
19 16
Evan Mobley CLE
16 18
Jarrett Allen CLE
15 14
Peyton Watson CLE
13 8
Jaylon Tyson CLE
11 3

399 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Sam Merrill CLE
9 5
Mario Hezonja CLE
7 10
Craig Porter Jr. CLE
5 0

852 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Jaylen Brown PHI
20 21
Tyrese Maxey PHI
19 32

361 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Joel Embiid PHI
17 24
LeBron James PHI
14 17
VJ Edgecombe PHI
11 11
Anfernee Simons PHI
10 2

382 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Caleb Love PHI
7 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope PHI
6 3
Dean Wade PHI
4 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

The typical game

Not an average: one real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them. CLE 119, PHI 113.

Cavaliers
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
James Harden 19285-211-6
Evan Mobley 11653-80-0
Donovan Mitchell 25469-204-9
Peyton Watson 19408-83-3
Jarrett Allen 171338-90-0
Jaylon Tyson 8423-112-5
Sam Merrill 8423-52-4
Craig Porter Jr. 0430-20-0
Mario Hezonja 12233-62-3
76ers
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Tyrese Maxey 20426-94-4
VJ Edgecombe 19727-121-5
Jaylen Brown 16824-130-2
LeBron James 10533-72-2
Joel Embiid 191136-142-3
Anfernee Simons 15316-113-6
Dean Wade 3201-31-3
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 11304-81-4
Caleb Love 0430-20-0

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season so far, ESPN.
  • Out: Diop, Tomlin · Barlow, Fall, Hukporti. Allen and Wade (day-to-day) play.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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