NBA · Regular season ·
Will the Cavaliers beat the Nets?
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Cavaliers win chance
88%
Typical margin: Cavaliers by 16.5
Nets 12%Cavaliers 88%
In short
- Our ratings favor the Cavaliers by 16 points, home court included
Why this number
PremiumEvery step from a coin flip to our number, in the order our model adds them.
- An even game50%Every game starts as a coin flip.
- Home court+1161%Playing at home is worth about 3.9 points to the Cavaliers.
- See how far every step moved our number.
- Our numberCavaliers 88%
Each step is that piece's share of the model, so the steps add up to the number we published.
The range
In 9 of 10 simulations, the result lands between Nets by 6 and Cavaliers by 39.
What if he's out?
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Cavaliers win chance
88%
Nets 12%Cavaliers 88%
- Top scorerNets
- Top scorerCavaliers
In our model a star out costs his team 4.5 points, up to 9 for a whole roster.
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Our number over time
Down 5 from 93% to 88%
Oct 3Oct 9
Injury report
Nets
- Joshua JeffersonDay-To-Day
- Mikel Brown Jr.Day-To-Day
- Day'Ron SharpeDay-To-Day
- Michael Porter Jr.Day-To-Day
Cavaliers
- Khalifa DiopDay-To-Day
- Nae'Qwan TomlinDay-To-Day
- James HardenDay-To-Day
Our method
- We simulate the final margin 40,000 times from our team ratings (Elo, fitted walk-forward) and the ESPN injury report.
- The win chance is the share of those simulations each team wins.
- Model v1.2.0, updated Oct 9.