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NBA Wed, Oct 28 Final

76ers @ Pacers

Simulated 10,000 times

↻ Re-run: no Haliburton. The re-run is the sim that was posted, and the one scored.

TeamGame shownReal
PHI 76ers 106 114
IND Pacers 105 109

✓ The sim had it. The 76ers won 51% of the runs, and won the real game, PHI by 5.

Wild card · 1 in 12 runs

Tyrese Maxey: 30+ points

Didn’t hit. Real: 27 points.

Every run’s final margin

Game shown · PHI by 1
Real · PHI by 5
← PHI by 30+ 0 IND 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. 6 of 17 landed within 3 points of the sim.

040 SimReal
Tyrese Maxey PHI
20 27
Jaylen Brown PHI
20 20
Joel Embiid PHI
19 21
LeBron James PHI
14 13
VJ Edgecombe PHI
12 8
Anfernee Simons PHI
8 20

146 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope PHI
7 4
Dean Wade PHI
5 0
Rayan Rupert PHI
5 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Pascal Siakam IND
22 26
Andrew Nembhard IND
17 18
Aaron Nesmith IND
13 18
Jarace Walker IND
12 7
Obi Toppin IND
12 13
Kelly Oubre Jr. IND
11 15
Jay Huff IND
9 3

976 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Quenton Jackson IND
8 2

893 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Jalen Slawson IND
6 2

What a 76ers win looks like

One real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them: a 76ers win. An example of how it could go, not a predicted score. PHI 106, IND 105. 76ers by exactly 1 in 2.5% of runs.

76ers
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Tyrese Maxey 24249-224-9
Jaylen Brown 21827-151-3
VJ Edgecombe 5542-51-2
Joel Embiid 171117-160-3
LeBron James 151164-100-1
Dean Wade 3411-51-4
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 6503-60-2
Anfernee Simons 11434-91-4
Rayan Rupert 4411-41-4
Pacers
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Pascal Siakam 256311-201-3
Andrew Nembhard 20477-92-4
Kelly Oubre Jr. 10732-122-6
Aaron Nesmith 12615-150-5
Jarace Walker 11673-53-3
Obi Toppin 13504-61-2
Jay Huff 4402-40-1
Quenton Jackson 4421-60-2
Jalen Slawson 6332-51-1

What went in

  • Without Haliburton, the other Pacers take his shots at their own rates; the sim can't see how much harder those shots get.
  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season, ESPN; each shot adjusted for tonight's defense.
  • Out: Barlow, Fall, Hukporti, Walker · Haliburton, McConnell, Sheppard, Zubac.
  • Day-to-day, simulated as playing: Toppin.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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