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NBA Wed, Oct 28 Final

Warriors @ Timberwolves

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamGame shownReal
GSW Warriors 109 119
MIN Timberwolves 119 114

✗ A miss. The Timberwolves won 72% of the runs, but the Warriors won the real game, GSW by 5. GSW won by that much or more in 20% of runs.

Every run’s final margin

Game shown · MIN by 10
Real · GSW by 5
← GSW by 30+ 0 MIN 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 15 landed within 3 points of the sim.

050 SimReal
Stephen Curry GSW
22 44

39 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Yaxel Lendeborg GSW
16 26

701 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Brandin Podziemski GSW
14 8
Gui Santos GSW
11 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Brandon Williams GSW
11 11
De'Anthony Melton GSW
10 8
Draymond Green GSW
8 3
Georges Niang GSW
8 7
Al Horford GSW
7 4
LaMelo Ball MIN
20 8

311 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Jaden McDaniels MIN
17 19
Jonathan Kuminga MIN
17 20
Ayo Dosunmu MIN
17 17
Rudy Gobert MIN
13 1

19 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Terrence Shannon Jr. MIN
11 19

861 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Cody Williams MIN
8 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Zyon Pullin MIN
8 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Trey Lyles MIN
7 7

What a Timberwolves win looks like

One real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them: a Timberwolves win. An example of how it could go, not a predicted score. GSW 109, MIN 119. Timberwolves by exactly 10 in 2.5% of runs.

Warriors
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Brandin Podziemski 8453-92-8
Stephen Curry 23269-205-12
Draymond Green 13645-131-8
Yaxel Lendeborg 141215-120-4
Gui Santos 9534-70-3
De'Anthony Melton 9433-42-2
Al Horford 10234-82-3
Georges Niang 7222-111-7
Brandon Williams 16135-100-3
Timberwolves
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Jaden McDaniels 17564-81-2
Rudy Gobert 91833-50-0
Jonathan Kuminga 121124-91-2
Ayo Dosunmu 16665-191-6
LaMelo Ball 19858-193-9
Terrence Shannon Jr. 14214-62-3
Trey Lyles 15426-93-6
Cody Williams 9223-51-3
Zyon Pullin 8323-30-0

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season, ESPN; each shot adjusted for tonight's defense.
  • Out: Butler, Moody, Porzingis · DiVincenzo, Edwards.
  • Day-to-day, simulated as playing: Lendeborg.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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