NBA · Jan 29 gameAll props Full sheet

Los Angeles Lakers at Houston Rockets

FinalLAL 119 – HOU 135Page updated 21:11 UTC

Original picks and recorded results

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Saved picks

0Posted odds · decimal

Check minutes

No playing-time estimates are available.

We had no picks in this game.

How to read the prices

Over means more than the posted line; Under means fewer. Decimal odds show the total return per unit staked, including the stake. Row order follows lineup status and available prices, not a confidence ranking.

Getting a better price than most bookmakers offer is the only thing that made money in our past tests, measured on WNBA bets; NBA has not been measured yet. Player rates are context, not tips.

Players and minutes4 players in the available roster

Minutes are source estimates, not guaranteed playing time. Historical hit rates describe past games; they are not a forecast.

Los Angeles Lakers

Houston Rockets

Alperen Sengun · minutes unknown

rebounds 9.5 → 12 actual

Amen Thompson · minutes unknown

rebounds 3.5 → 7 actual

Fred VanVleet · minutes unknown

assists 7.5 → 14 actual

Jabari Smith Jr. · minutes unknown

blocks 0.5 → 1 actual

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Availability and game contextGame odds, lineups, workload and rest

Game odds

LAL expected to win by about 1 · both teams together expected to score about 235.5 points · odds to win: LAL 1.86, HOU 2.05

Game odds from Pinnacle (the bookmaker we use as the reference) · observed Tue 01:05 UTC

What could go wrong

updated 21:11 UTC

Who is out

Injury report not checked yet: none has reached us for this game, so an empty list here does not mean everyone plays.

Lineups

Expected starting lineup, not yet confirmed

Playing time

No playing-time estimates are available.

Rest

Both teams had at least two days between their last game and this one.

Bookmakers

The reference bookmaker, Pinnacle, offers 0 of the 179 lines; the rest rely on other bookmakers.

Every pick is priced by at least 2 bookmakers.

When a player is out, that player's lines are removed: in our past results this helped. Guessing which teammates benefit was also tested and lost money, so nothing else on this page is adjusted for it.

Your reads and game resultsPredictions closed at game start

What happened

In 1 of 3 cases where a player's past record disagreed with the bookmakers' price, the past record was right in this game. One game proves nothing.

FinalWe had no picks in this game · every posted line is still scored below

4 other players with a posted line

Amen Thompson · rebounds 3.5 → 7 · 3.5 above the line · played 11.9 min · no final price

Jabari Smith Jr. · blocks 0.5 → 1 · 0.5 above the line · played 36.1 min · no final price

Fred VanVleet · assists 7.5 → 14 · 6.5 above the line · played 37.4 min · no final price

Alperen Sengun · rebounds 9.5 → 12 · 2.5 above the line · played 39.5 min · no final price

Each prediction is recorded as if you had staked 1 at the line you saw, and your record is shown here. One game tells you nothing yet.

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More context

Head to head

HOU vs LAL · last 33 games · LAL leads · HOU record 10–23 · average score 106.8–109.9 · HOU has lost by 3 on average

Team results are background only; they say nothing about any single player's line.

1 May · LAL 98 at HOU 78HOU lost

29 Apr · HOU 99 at LAL 93HOU won

26 Apr · LAL 96 at HOU 115HOU won

24 Apr · LAL 112 at HOU 108HOU lost

21 Apr · HOU 94 at LAL 101HOU lost

18 Apr · HOU 98 at LAL 107HOU lost

18 Mar · LAL 124 at HOU 116HOU lost

16 Mar · LAL 100 at HOU 92HOU lost

What each defense gives up per game

Team defense unavailable right now.

Defense by position

How much this is worth

Defense-by-position numbers are mostly random from season to season; shown for context only. We tested it: a team's defense-by-position numbers from one half of the season do not predict the other half, so treat them as noise.

Defense by position unavailable right now.

How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had LAL expected to win by 1, expected total 235.5 (Tue 01:05 UTC) and had not changed it by Tue 01:05 UTC.

The odds at the top of the page are the latest we have, from every bookmaker on file; this is one bookmaker's own history.

Data log (technical)

Technical detail for auditing; the plain version is above. Internal ids and formula names print here only.

Line-shopping measurement: project_conditional_minutes_refuted

Our picks, raw · 0

No raw pick rows for this game.

Checked results, raw (basketball-stats shorthand) · 0

No graded rows for this game.

Data fetches · 31

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sds rest/team (home)ok 200 · 330 ms

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sds analytics player_vs_teamok 200 · 21 ms

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sds injuries/game/{id}ok 200 · 373 ms

grading clv/picksok 200 · 211 ms

sds analytics player_vs_line (rebounds)ok 200 · 154 ms

sds analytics player_vs_line (assists)ok 200 · 164 ms

sds analytics player_vs_teamok 200 · 168 ms

sds analytics player_vs_line (rebounds)ok 200 · 197 ms

sds analytics player_vs_line (blocks)ok 200 · 197 ms

dh lineups/{id}/deltaok 200 · 725 ms

odds game timelineok 200 · 801 ms

odds player timeline (assists)ok 200 · 484 ms

odds player timeline (blocks)ok 200 · 484 ms

odds player timeline (rebounds)ok 200 · 484 ms

odds player timeline (rebounds)ok 200 · 501 ms

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