Cleveland Cavaliers vs Orlando Magic — Win Probability
FINAL
Cleveland Cavaliers
47-10
122
VS
Orlando Magic
29-29
82
Model expected score: Cleveland Cavaliers 115.7 – Orlando Magic 110.3 (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.
CLE
Sam MerrillDay-To-Day
Jaylon TysonOut
ORL
Jalen SuggsOut
Jonathan IsaacOut
Paolo BancheroOut
Noah PendaOut
Izaiyah NelsonOut
Prediction vs. Result
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PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Cavaliers 69%
ACTUAL RESULT
✓ Cavaliers won by 40
COMBINED SCORE
204
Margin of Victory — Orlando Magic (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost ← actual result
65%
Won by 1-3
7%
Won by 4-7
9%
Won by 8-14
10%
Won by 15-21
6%
Won by 21+
3%
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 204.
O/U LINE 210
80% over20% under ✓
O/U LINE 220
62% over38% under ✓
O/U LINE 230 MODEL'S PICK
42% over58% under ✓
O/U LINE 240
23% over77% under ✓
O/U LINE 250
10% over90% 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.
CLE
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).
Donovan MitchellSG
24.0
Darius GarlandPG
20.6
Evan MobleyPF
18.5
Jarrett AllenC
13.5
Max StrusSF
9.4
ORL
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).