Detroit Pistons vs Dallas Mavericks — Win Probability
FINAL
Detroit Pistons
39-31
117
VS
Dallas Mavericks
33-36
123
Model expected score: Detroit Pistons 116.2 – Dallas Mavericks 114.9 (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.
DET
Isaiah JoeOut
Jalen DurenOut
DAL
Morez Johnson Jr.Day-To-Day
Sergio de LarreaOut
Tarik BiberovicOut
Dereck Lively IIOut
Prediction vs. Result
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PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Pistons 54%
ACTUAL RESULT
✕ Mavericks won by 6
COMBINED SCORE
240
Margin of Victory — Dallas Mavericks (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost
54%
Won by 1-3
8%
Won by 4-7 ← actual result
10%
Won by 8-14
14%
Won by 15-21
8%
Won by 21+
6%
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 240.
O/U LINE 210
86% over ✓14% under
O/U LINE 220
72% over ✓28% under
O/U LINE 230 MODEL'S PICK
52% over ✓48% under
O/U LINE 240
32% over68% under ✓
O/U LINE 250
16% over84% under ✓
O/U LINE 260
7% over93% under ✓
Starter Grades
Season-to-date Basketball-Reference stats for each team's starters, minimum 25% of that team's games started.
DET
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).
Cade CunninghamPG
26.1
Jaden IveySG
17.6
Tobias HarrisPF
13.7
Jalen DurenC
11.8
Tim Hardaway Jr.SG
11.0
DAL
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).