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FORECAST · WNBA

WSH @ POR

Washington Mystics · Portland Fire · Monday, 24 August 2026 at 01:00

CorrectPreview saved before the gameAs of 23 Aug

What Forecast expects · Favourite

65%WSHchance to win
POR · 35.2%64.8% · WSH
  • WSH starts with a 64.8% chance to win; POR with 35.2%.
  • In games: out of 10 like this one, WSH would win 6 and POR 4.

Confidence

medium
  • Research-stage model: shown as what it said before tip-off, not as an advantage.
  • The model does not know this game's injuries or starting five.

Why

  • The model looks at only two things: each team's accumulated season strength and home court.
  • Home court is worth 4.6 probability points to POR.
  • WSH comes in with the stronger accumulated season form: that moves 19.4 points toward WSH.

What weighs most

Home court+4.6 toward POR
Season strength+19.4 toward WSH

probability points

What could flip it

  • The model does not read the injury report and has no players inside it: an absence would change the game without changing this number. There is no calculation saying by how much.
  • What the model does not look at and this number does not capture: rest and travel, the day's injury report, the starting five and recent form.

Uncertainty

  • The model gives a number, not a band: its reliability is measured by comparing forecasts with results, not by drawing a margin.
  • It does not know injuries, rest, travel or the starting five: any of them can move this game without the number changing.
  • For reference, the pre-tip market consensus gave POR 38.3%.

What changed since the last snapshot

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After the game

WSH 65%
Expected
POR 100 – WSH 105
Actual
0.12
this game's error
  • Expected: WSH at 64.8%.
  • Actual: POR 100 – WSH 105. WSH won.
  • The favorite delivered.
  • This game's error: 0.12 (0 = nailed it, 1 = worst possible; a 50% call would score 0.25).
  • The market consensus did get the side right (61.7% on the winner).

Is it calibrated?

47
games measured
74%
accuracy
0.173
error (Brier)
market 0.172
13 pp
average deviation (ECE)
  • Over 47 settled games with this model: it picked the right side 74% of the time and its average error (Brier) was 0.173. When it said X%, reality was on average 13 points away from that X%.
  • On those same games, the market consensus had less error (0.172 versus 0.173): the model does not beat it, and we say so.
  • 47 games is a small sample: these numbers still move a lot.

How it is measured and limits

Model

SportiveWorld's WNBA game model, research stage: it reads each team's accumulated season strength and home-court advantage. Shown as what it said before tip-off, not as an edge.

This is the preview saved before the game, not current data.

Sample · Measured against 47 settled games.

Injuries · Availability known before tip-off: an injury report existed and was read (it does not enter the number).

  • · What you see is the preview sealed before the game, not a later recalculation.
  • · 47 games is a small sample: these numbers still move a lot.

As of 23 Aug · SportiveWorld model

Verified against the source · 13/13
  • expected competition and game
  • home and away
  • probability intact
  • favourite = higher probability
  • sealed and signed snapshot
  • registered model
  • sealed before tip-off
  • consistent official result
  • core verified by the server
  • verified components
  • numbers add up
  • freshness without contradiction
  • consistent track record

This is reading the data, not a bet: we work with no bookmakers and show no odds. And a game turns on an injury, a hot night or a bad call.