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NBA Mon, Oct 26 Final

Suns @ Thunder

Simulated 10,000 times

TeamTypicalReal
PHX Suns 108 114
OKC Thunder 119 125

✓ The sim had it. The Thunder won 75% of the runs, and won the real game, OKC by 11.

Every run’s final margin

Typical · OKC by 11
Real · OKC by 11
← PHX by 30+ 0 OKC 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 15 landed within 3 points of the sim.

050 SimReal
Devin Booker PHX
22 3

None of 10,000 runs went that low.

Dillon Brooks PHX
18 19
Jalen Green PHX
16 20
Miles Bridges PHX
13 17
Collin Gillespie PHX
11 9
Jordan Goodwin PHX
8 12
Luke Kennard PHX
7 9
Oso Ighodaro PHX
6 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Ryan Dunn PHX
6 6
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC
32 26
Ajay Mitchell OKC
16 30

195 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Chet Holmgren OKC
16 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Isaiah Hartenstein OKC
10 15
Jared McCain OKC
10 18

765 of 10,000 runs went that high.

Cason Wallace OKC
9 DNP

Didn’t play. The sim had them playing.

Alex Caruso OKC
9 9
Josh Dix OKC
8 0

275 of 10,000 runs went that low.

Aday Mara OKC
8 11

The typical game

Not an average: one real run out of the 10,000, the one closest to the middle of all of them. PHX 108, OKC 119.

Suns
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Devin Booker 19845-141-1
Dillon Brooks 18417-150-4
Miles Bridges 22606-102-3
Jalen Green 18427-150-4
Collin Gillespie 6142-82-7
Luke Kennard 7212-51-1
Oso Ighodaro 7703-40-0
Jordan Goodwin 5632-91-6
Ryan Dunn 6332-51-4
Thunder
Player PTSREBASTFG3PT
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 323711-162-3
Ajay Mitchell 15945-110-2
Chet Holmgren 201337-122-4
Isaiah Hartenstein 11725-100-1
Cason Wallace 8143-61-2
Alex Caruso 16315-115-10
Josh Dix 5622-81-5
Jared McCain 7313-80-1
Aday Mara 5712-51-1

What went in

  • Players: 2025-26 play-by-play (any team; 2024-25 too for anyone with under 20 games) + this season so far, ESPN.
  • Out: M. Williams · J. Williams, Topic, Sorber, Oweh. Ighodaro, Wallace, Jaylin Williams (day-to-day) play.
  • 10,000 runs, seed 2101. Simulated, not a prediction.

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