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FORECAST · WNBA

GS @ POR

Golden State Valkyries · Portland Fire · Monday, 31 August 2026 at 01:00

CorrectPreview saved before the gameAs of 30 Aug

What Forecast expects · Favourite

76%GSchance to win
POR · 24.3%75.7% · GS
  • GS starts with a 75.7% chance to win; POR with 24.3%.
  • In games: out of 10 like this one, GS would win 8 and POR 2.

Confidence

medium
  • The model sees a clear favorite.
  • 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.
  • GS comes in with the stronger accumulated season form: that moves 30.4 points toward GS.

What weighs most

Home court+4.6 toward POR
Season strength+30.4 toward GS

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 33.0%.

What changed since the last snapshot

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After the game

GS 76%
Expected
POR 69 – GS 86
Actual
0.06
this game's error
  • Expected: GS at 75.7%.
  • Actual: POR 69 – GS 86. GS won.
  • The favorite delivered.
  • This game's error: 0.06 (0 = nailed it, 1 = worst possible; a 50% call would score 0.25).
  • The market consensus did get the side right (67.0% on the winner).

Is it calibrated?

49
games measured
76%
accuracy
0.172
error (Brier)
market 0.169
12 pp
average deviation (ECE)
  • Over 49 settled games with this model: it picked the right side 76% of the time and its average error (Brier) was 0.172. When it said X%, reality was on average 12 points away from that X%.
  • On those same games, the market consensus had less error (0.169 versus 0.172): the model does not beat it, and we say so.
  • 49 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 49 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.
  • · 49 games is a small sample: these numbers still move a lot.

As of 30 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.