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NBA Wed, Oct 28 Final

Spurs @ Jazz

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamGame shownReal · OT
SAS Spurs 126 117
UTA Jazz 114 111

✓ The sim had it. The Spurs won 75% of the runs, and won the real game, SAS by 6.

Every run’s final margin

Game shown · SAS by 12
Real · SAS by 6
← SAS by 30+ 0 UTA 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 16 landed within 3 points of the sim.

040 SimReal
Victor Wembanyama SAS
24 36

526 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Stephon Castle SAS
18 14
De'Aaron Fox SAS
17 14
Dylan Harper SAS
15 13
Devin Vassell SAS
13 21

973 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Julian Champagnie SAS
12 6
Keldon Johnson SAS
12 9
Luke Kornet SAS
6 1

552 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Harrison Barnes SAS
6 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Lauri Markkanen UTA
22 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Keyonte George UTA
21 31

981 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Ace Bailey UTA
14 19
Darryn Peterson UTA
11 18
Brice Sensabaugh UTA
11 16
Jaxson Hayes UTA
9 2

489 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Isaiah Collier UTA
9 7
Svi Mykhailiuk UTA
7 3
Josh Okogie UTA
4 5

What a Spurs win looks like

One real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them: a Spurs win. An example of how it could go, not a predicted score. SAS 126, UTA 114. Spurs by exactly 12 in 2.3% of runs.

Spurs
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Devin Vassell 14755-132-6
Victor Wembanyama 221119-152-4
De'Aaron Fox 12496-70-0
Stephon Castle 20476-92-3
Julian Champagnie 12644-92-7
Dylan Harper 19847-112-3
Keldon Johnson 16715-101-4
Luke Kornet 4021-20-0
Harrison Barnes 7021-21-2
Jazz
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Keyonte George 22388-172-6
Lauri Markkanen 22908-202-7
Ace Bailey 11845-121-6
Darryn Peterson 8463-110-2
Jaxson Hayes 17636-90-0
Isaiah Collier 6023-70-2
Svi Mykhailiuk 12225-62-2
Brice Sensabaugh 13425-93-5
Josh Okogie 3111-31-3

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team) + this season, ESPN; each shot adjusted for tonight's defense.
  • Out: Harris, Quaintance · Alexander, Hinson, Jackson, Nurkic.
  • Day-to-day, simulated as playing: Hayes, Markkanen.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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