Ahead of Saturday’s Final Four matchup between Villanova and Oklahoma, our prediction model had the Wildcats only slightly favored, with a 54 percent chance of winning, and nearly a quarter of the game was as tight as that probability suggests. When Oklahoma led 17-16 after eight minutes, our in-game win probabilities listed the odds as […]
The Warriors are just fine. Two nights after a loss to the Boston Celtics dropped Golden State’s odds of breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 regular season wins to 54.6 percent according to our CARM-Elo projections, the Warriors thumped the Portland Trail Blazers 136-111 and those chances are back to 60 percent. Stephen […]
The Warriors are just fine. Two nights after a loss to the Boston Celtics dropped Golden State’s odds of breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 regular season wins to 54.6 percent according to our CARM-Elo projections, the Warriors thumped the Portland Trail Blazers 136-111 and those chances are back to 60 percent. Stephen […]
On Thursday, we pegged the Golden State Warriors’ chance of winning 73 games — thereby breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ all-time NBA record for most victories in a season — at 85 percent. But Friday night, the improbable happened: The Boston Celtics beat Golden State in Oakland, snapping the Warriors’ 54-game winning streak at Oracle […]
On Thursday, we pegged the Golden State Warriors’ chance of winning 73 games — thereby breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ all-time NBA record for most victories in a season — at 85 percent. But Friday night, the improbable happened: The Boston Celtics beat Golden State in Oakland, snapping the Warriors’ 54-game winning streak at Oracle […]
