Denver Nuggets vs Golden State Warriors — Win Probability
FINAL
Denver Nuggets
47-30
104
VS
Golden State Warriors
45-30
118
Model expected score: Denver Nuggets 116.7 – Golden State Warriors 118.6 (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.
DEN
Julian StrawtherOut
GS
Gary Payton IIDay-To-Day
Brandon WilliamsDay-To-Day
Will RichardOut
Kristaps PorzingisOut
Moses MoodyOut
Jimmy Butler IIIOut
Prediction vs. Result
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PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Warriors 55%
ACTUAL RESULT
✓ Warriors won by 14
COMBINED SCORE
222
Margin of Victory — Golden State Warriors (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost
45%
Won by 1-3
8%
Won by 4-7
11%
Won by 8-14 ← actual result
16%
Won by 15-21
11%
Won by 21+
9%
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 222.
O/U LINE 210
91% over ✓9% under
O/U LINE 220
79% over ✓21% under
O/U LINE 230
61% over39% under ✓
O/U LINE 240 MODEL'S PICK
40% over60% under ✓
O/U LINE 250
22% over78% under ✓
O/U LINE 260
10% over90% under ✓
Starter Grades
Season-to-date Basketball-Reference stats for each team's starters, minimum 25% of that team's games started.
DEN
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).
Nikola JokićC
29.6
Jamal MurrayPG
21.4
Michael Porter Jr.SF
18.2
Christian BraunSG
15.4
Aaron GordonPF
14.7
GS
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).