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NBA Wed, Oct 28 Final

Magic @ Raptors

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamGame shownReal
ORL Magic 113 99
TOR Raptors 117 129

✓ The sim had it. The Raptors won 59% of the runs, and won the real game, TOR by 30.

Every run’s final margin

Game shown · TOR by 4
Real · TOR by 30
← ORL by 30+ 0 TOR 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. 5 of 17 landed within 3 points of the sim.

040 SimReal
Franz Wagner ORL
22 15
Desmond Bane ORL
21 13
Wendell Carter Jr. ORL
14 3

86 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Tristan da Silva ORL
13 20
Anthony Black ORL
12 8
Nikola Vucevic ORL
10 5
Jevon Carter ORL
6 6
Jamal Cain ORL
6 9
Jase Richardson ORL
6 10
RJ Barrett TOR
23 25
Scottie Barnes TOR
20 28
Immanuel Quickley TOR
17 16
Jakob Poeltl TOR
11 2

153 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Ja'Kobe Walter TOR
10 14
Collin Murray-Boyles TOR
10 10
Malachi Smith TOR
9 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Allen Graves TOR
8 3
Jamal Shead TOR
7 13

What a Raptors win looks like

One real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them: a Raptors win. An example of how it could go, not a predicted score. ORL 113, TOR 117. Raptors by exactly 4 in 2.5% of runs.

Magic
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Desmond Bane 238210-171-5
Franz Wagner 22515-141-3
Wendell Carter Jr. 141345-102-5
Tristan da Silva 8523-101-5
Anthony Black 17046-154-6
Nikola Vucevic 17656-112-4
Jevon Carter 3241-31-2
Jamal Cain 6802-52-3
Jase Richardson 3131-20-0
Raptors
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Scottie Barnes 201277-171-5
RJ Barrett 20757-131-4
Immanuel Quickley 9254-91-4
Jakob Poeltl 18528-90-0
Ja'Kobe Walter 12435-102-5
Jamal Shead 5132-80-4
Collin Murray-Boyles 16405-70-0
Malachi Smith 6333-60-2
Allen Graves 11204-62-3

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season, ESPN; each shot adjusted for tonight's defense.
  • Out: Banchero, Isaac, Nelson, Penda, Suggs · Bittle, Leonard.
  • Day-to-day, simulated as playing: Black.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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