Portland Trail Blazers vs Utah Jazz — Win Probability
FINAL
Portland Trail Blazers
35-44
126
VS
Utah Jazz
16-63
133
Model expected score: Portland Trail Blazers 117.1 – Utah Jazz 113.2 (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.
POR
Ja MorantOut
Vit KrejciOut
Shaedon SharpeOut
UTAH
Keyonte GeorgeOut
Lauri MarkkanenDay-To-Day
Jusuf NurkicOut
Jaren Jackson Jr.Out
Prediction vs. Result
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PREGAME WIN PROBABILITY
Blazers 64%
ACTUAL RESULT
✕ Jazz won by 7
COMBINED SCORE
259
Margin of Victory — Utah Jazz (Home)
Pregame odds for every possible outcome, simulated before tipoff -- the highlighted bar is what actually happened.
Lost
61%
Won by 1-3
8%
Won by 4-7 ← actual result
9%
Won by 8-14
12%
Won by 15-21
6%
Won by 21+
4%
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 259.
O/U LINE 210
86% over ✓14% under
O/U LINE 220
71% over ✓29% under
O/U LINE 230 MODEL'S PICK
51% over ✓49% under
O/U LINE 240
31% over ✓69% under
O/U LINE 250
15% over ✓85% under
O/U LINE 260
6% over94% under ✓
Starter Grades
Season-to-date Basketball-Reference stats for each team's starters, minimum 25% of that team's games started.
POR
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).
Anfernee SimonsSG
19.3
Shaedon SharpeSG
18.5
Deni AvdijaSF
16.9
Deandre AytonC
14.4
Jerami GrantPF
14.4
UTAH
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).