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Win probability changed during the game. · 1 November 2019

UTA101–102SAC
Is it worth watching?
Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 95% of NBA games since 2017

  • · The win probability swung between the two teams 28 times
  • · It stayed close for almost the whole game

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

↑ SAC winsUTA wins ↓

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when SAC leads and falls when UTA does.

Game context

Attendance
16.273
92.4% of capacity
Golden 1 Center · Sacramento
Scoring
203
combined points
20.6 below the season average (223.6)
⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

23 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA
Turnover: Traveling · 01:29.8
Bojan Bogdanovic → Kings
Bogdanovic (UTA) receives the pass and takes more than two steps after he has gathered the ball.