Houston Rockets vs Sacramento Kings — Win Probability
FINAL
Houston Rockets
15-6
111
VS
Sacramento Kings
9-12
120
Model expected score: Houston Rockets 114.4 – Sacramento Kings 112.0 (no market line posted for this game yet -- see Margin/Totals below)
Injury Report
Live ESPN injury status for both teams, polled fresh each run.
HOU
Oscar TshiebweDay-To-Day
Clint CapelaOut
Steven AdamsOut
SAC
Maxime RaynaudOut
Keegan MurrayDay-To-Day
Domantas SabonisDay-To-Day
Ben SimmonsOut
Prediction vs. Result
We keep every prediction permanently so we can always show our work.
PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Rockets 58%
ACTUAL RESULT
✕ Kings won by 9
COMBINED SCORE
231
Margin of Victory — Sacramento Kings (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost
57%
Won by 1-3
8%
Won by 4-7
10%
Won by 8-14 ← actual result
13%
Won by 15-21
7%
Won by 21+
5%
Total Score — Over / Under
Combined score across 100,000 simulated versions of this game, against six fixed lines (no market total posted for this game yet -- the highlighted line is this model's own pick, not a sportsbook number). The real combined score was 231.
O/U LINE 210
80% over ✓20% under
O/U LINE 220
63% over ✓37% under
O/U LINE 230 MODEL'S PICK
43% over ✓57% under
O/U LINE 240
24% over76% under ✓
O/U LINE 250
11% over89% under ✓
O/U LINE 260
4% over96% under ✓
Starter Grades
Season-to-date Basketball-Reference stats for each team's starters, minimum 25% of that team's games started.
HOU
Points Per GamePoints scored per game.
Player Efficiency RatingPlayer Efficiency Rating (John Hollinger) -- a per-minute rating summing a player's positive contributions and subtracting the negative, league-adjusted so 15.0 = average.
Win Shares Per 48 MinutesAn estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player per 48 minutes (league average is approximately .100).
Jalen GreenSG
21.0
Alperen ŞengünC
19.1
Amen ThompsonSF
14.1
Fred VanVleetPG
14.1
Dillon BrooksSF
14.0
SAC
Points Per GamePoints scored per game.
Player Efficiency RatingPlayer Efficiency Rating (John Hollinger) -- a per-minute rating summing a player's positive contributions and subtracting the negative, league-adjusted so 15.0 = average.
Win Shares Per 48 MinutesAn estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player per 48 minutes (league average is approximately .100).