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NBA Wed, Oct 28 Final

Rockets @ Bucks

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamGame shownReal
HOU Rockets 117 132
MIL Bucks 114 100

✓ The sim had it. The Rockets won 57% of the runs, and won the real game, HOU by 32.

Every run’s final margin

Game shown · HOU by 3
Real · HOU by 32
← HOU by 30+ 0 MIL 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. 3 of 18 landed within 3 points of the sim.

040 SimReal
Kevin Durant HOU
23 18
Amen Thompson HOU
19 23
Jabari Smith Jr. HOU
15 14
Fred VanVleet HOU
14 24

707 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Reed Sheppard HOU
13 7
Tari Eason HOU
11 5
Oscar Tshiebwe HOU
8 7
Bogdan Bogdanovic HOU
6 16

210 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Clint Capela HOU
4 10

651 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Tyler Herro MIL
19 23
Ryan Rollins MIL
16 4

133 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Jaime Jaquez Jr. MIL
15 19
Kyle Kuzma MIL
13 4

279 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Myles Turner MIL
12 4

528 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Kel'el Ware MIL
11 6
Kasparas Jakucionis MIL
8 4
Gary Trent Jr. MIL
8 3
AJ Green MIL
7 9

What a Rockets win looks like

One real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them: a Rockets win. An example of how it could go, not a predicted score. HOU 117, MIL 114. Rockets by exactly 3 in 2.5% of runs.

Rockets
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Amen Thompson 181457-130-0
Jabari Smith Jr. 191108-163-8
Kevin Durant 241178-184-6
Fred VanVleet 12244-102-6
Reed Sheppard 11244-113-8
Tari Eason 15116-143-5
Bogdan Bogdanovic 5352-51-4
Oscar Tshiebwe 6632-40-0
Clint Capela 7613-50-0
Bucks
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Tyler Herro 19667-121-3
Ryan Rollins 13854-91-2
Jaime Jaquez Jr. 234510-171-3
Kyle Kuzma 13945-121-3
Myles Turner 17314-82-3
AJ Green 9013-72-5
Kel'el Ware 5602-81-5
Kasparas Jakucionis 9552-71-4
Gary Trent Jr. 6002-42-4

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season, ESPN; each shot adjusted for tonight's defense.
  • Out: Adams, Sengun, Smart · none.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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