NBA · Finalupdated 20:35 UTC

Denver Nuggets vs New Orleans Pelicans

at New Orleans Pelicans

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DEN 104 – NOP 91

Final · 2 of 3 picks won

3 picks checked: 2 won, 1 lost.

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.

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A pick is a player line, for example Under 13.5 points, that we published before the game together with the price we found for it. We do not take bets.
Odds are shown in the decimal format: 1.93 means you get back 1.93 for every 1 staked, so a higher number pays more. The American format (−108 means risk 108 to win 100; +111 means risk 100 to win 111) appears only in the Data log at the bottom of the page.
'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; 'better' is a higher price for the same line at another bookmaker. Taking the better price is the one thing on this page that made money over many past bets; that was measured on WNBA bets, and NBA has not been measured yet.
'Market puts Under at 48.5%' is the chance implied by all bookmakers' prices together, with their built-in margin removed. Pinnacle is a bookmaker whose prices are widely treated as the most accurate reference, so it is the one we compare against.
A player's rate is how often that player has gone over the line in every game we hold since the 2019-20 season (not only this season), for example over in 41 of 78 games (52.6%), with a likely range such as 32–52%: fewer games means a wider range, and under 10 games we show no rate word at all.
'Past record stronger than the price' means the whole likely range sits above the chance the bookmakers' price implies; 'weaker' means below; 'agrees with the price' means the price sits inside the range, which is the usual case. None of these is a tip.
'Not measurable' is the usual honest answer: too few games to tell a real difference from chance.
'What could go wrong' lists the facts that can change a line: who is out, whether the starting lineup is confirmed, expected playing time (RotoWire's estimate), rest, and how many bookmakers price each line.
After the final, every pick is checked against the official stats and compared with the last price before the game started, the market's most informed price; getting a better price than that is the fairest test of a pick, whether or not it won. A tie means the player landed exactly on the line and the stake is returned; lines ending in .5 cannot tie.
Results are given for every 1 staked: 'would have returned +0.93' means a stake of 1 would have come back with 0.93 in profit. We do not stake anything; the record is what a stake of 1 on each pick would have done. Our record counts a smaller stake when the price advantage was small.
S beside a name marks an expected starter. Times are shown in your device's time zone; our data is recorded in US Eastern Time (ET). Team codes are the league's three-letter abbreviations.
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Team codes on this page: DEN = Denver Nuggets, NOP = New Orleans Pelicans.

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Picks and prices

Odds of at least 1.70 only · highest odds first · results checked

A line is the number a bookmaker sets, e.g. 13.5 points; Over means more than it, Under fewer. Odds 1.93 pay 1.93 for every 1 staked. 'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; after the game it is compared with the last price before the start.

Verified pre-tip publication record

These exact IDs were recorded before tip and match the Board and daily Ledger. Outcomes are joined by the same IDs; paper signals remain distinct from recommended stakes.

Publication #129 · 28 Oct, 22:02 UTC · 3 active signals

No new predictions are being generated here after tip. Saved calls and captured research are not current offers or injury confirmations.

This game’s current price coverage could not be verified. An empty price panel does not mean bookmakers have no lines.

Price comparison only: live snapshot enrichment and model inference were not requested by this game view. Source injuries, lineups and historical statistics are separate reads.

Evaluation coverage and timestamps

Status is slate-wide, observed only since the service started. It does not identify this game’s individual evaluation result.

Slate games processed: 0 / 0
Latest publication attempt: unknown
Status observed since: 29 Oct, 12:14 UTC

No verified attempt timestamp was returned. This is unknown—not a successful empty evaluation.

N. Jokic · Under 10.5 assistsWonPosted at 1.76 · last price before start pendingPublished #2496336Won

Posted at 1.76

Pinnacle, the reference bookmaker, does not price NBA player lines

No price history for this line.

Exact published pick #2496336. Recorded model stake: 0.95 units. The broader CORE flat-1u benchmark is separate; it is not a recommended1u wager or the exact published cohort’s ROI.

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A. Gordon · Under 15.5 pointsWonPosted at 2.10 · last price before start pendingPublished #2489161Won

J. Murray · Over 4.5 reboundsLostPosted at 2.17 · last price before start pendingPublished #2489160Lost

Why the better price matters

A higher price for the same line pays more whenever the pick wins; that is arithmetic, not a forecast.

What taking the best price is worth has been measured only on WNBA lines (25 Aug 2026); NBA has not been measured yet.

The players

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view · 35 rostered players. 3 published picks use separate saved records.

Rate: the share of every game we hold for the player since the 2019-20 season (not only this season) in which the player finished above tonight's line. S beside a name marks an expected starter.

Context only A player's rate describes the past; it is not a tip and has not been tested as one. Expected minutes come from RotoWire, a lineup news service.

Sign in to see each player's rate The numbers below (for example 15.5 points) are the lines the bookmakers actually posted.

Denver Nuggetsplaying NOP

17 players have no line from any bookmaker: Jokić (36 expected minutes) · Braun (35 min) · +15 more

New Orleans Pelicansplaying DEN

18 players have no line from any bookmaker: Murray (32 expected minutes) · III (32 min) · +16 more

Saved gameplay research · not CORE picks

What did the models record?

Read frozen projections, minutes and lineup assumptions for this exact game. These are uncalibrated research—not official recommendations or evidence that the CORE selector ran.

Only original pre-tip captures are read. Nothing is newly forecast after tip; old availability assumptions are not current injury news.

Saved reads only · no new captures, current snapshots, odds requests or paid AI runs.

What could go wrong

updated 20:35 UTC

Who is out

Unlikely to play Jr. · earlier listed as out (changed 20:15 UTC)

Unlikely to play Dia · earlier listed as out (changed 20:15 UTC)

Out Missi · earlier listed as unlisted (changed Sat 19:15 UTC) · 9 and 30 min in the last 2 games

Out Diallo · earlier listed as unlikely to play (changed Sat 01:45 UTC) · 22 min in the last game

C. Johnson (DEN) · earlier listed as may not play, now available (changed Sat 01:45 UTC) · 11, 39 and 36 min in the last 3 games

Brazile · new starter

Out Strawther · left knee sprain (knee) · DEN

Out S. Jones (DEN) · bilateral hamstring injury management (hamstring)

Out Poole · left ankle tendinopathy (ankle) · NOP

Reese · likely to play · two-way · NOP

T. Murphy III (NOP) · likely to play · bilateral knee tendinopathy

Lineups

Starting lineup confirmed (Wed 23:30 UTC) · NBA Official Lineups API, a lineup news service

Playing time

For 5 players (Gordon, DeRozan, Williamson, III, Murray) we have no real minutes estimate, only a default.

Rest

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

Bookmakers

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view. 3 published picks use separate saved records.

Looking back

Flagged before the game: Jr. out (20:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Dia out (20:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Missi out (Sat 19:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Diallo out (Sat 01:45 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: C. Johnson (DEN) out (Sat 01:45 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Strawther out · played

Flagged before the game: S. Jones (DEN) out · played

Brazile new starter · started, 31.6 min

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.

What happened

One game proves nothing.

Final · 2 of 3 picks wonPublished pick IDs: 2 won, 1 lost; 0 awaiting verified settlement. Positive-stake and paper results are separated in the daily Ledger; no combined unit return is claimed here. · checked Thu 14:47 UTC

No player-line entries were captured in this roster view.

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.

More context

Head to head

NOP vs DEN · last 25 games · DEN leads · NOP record 8–17 · average score 112.9–116.6 · NOP has lost by 3.7 on average

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

28 Oct · DEN 104 at NOP 91NOP lost

24 Oct · NOP 135 at DEN 141NOP lost

What each defense gives up per game

DEN gives up115.2 points · 44.8 rebounds · 28.0 assists · 35.0% from three-point range

NOP gives up117.8 points · 42.2 rebounds · 27.8 assists · 30.5% from three-point range

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.

DEN gives up 115.2 points a game · 17th of 29 · league average 113.7+1.5 vs average

NOP gives up 117.8 points a game · 21st of 29 · league average 113.7+4.1 vs average

How the game odds moved

No history of the game odds on file.

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

Defense-by-position measurement: split-half reliability r = -0.033 across 12 cells (7 of 12 negative) against a shuffle null of 0.000; a placebo using the wrong position family reproduced the effect to within 0.12pp · project_dvp_blowout_gate_refuted · 2026-08-26

Our picks, raw · 3

Aaron Gordon · U 15.5 points+110value_edge_pct – · kelly 1.60u

Jamal Murray · O 4.5 rebounds+117value_edge_pct – · kelly 1.30u

Nikola Jokic · U 10.5 assists−132value_edge_pct – · kelly 0.95u

Checked results, raw (basketball-stats shorthand) · 3

Nikola Jokic Under 10.5 ASTWIN +0.76ubet −132 · bet_clv:2496336 · disciplined · captured 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z · grade_v2 B · p_hit 58.5% · actual 10 · 34.3 min · started · season_avg 8.7 · active_status active · historical_min_avg 37 · prior_season_games 7 · historical_stat_avg 8.4 · current_season_min_avg 38.1 · recent_vs_baseline_flag stable · minutes_source_confidence diverge_low_confidence

Aaron Gordon Under 15.5 PTSWIN +1.10ubet +110 · bet_clv:2489161 · disciplined · captured 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z · grade_v2 PASS · p_hit 51.0% · actual 15 · 30.9 min · started · season_avg 11.3 · active_status active · historical_min_avg 30.3 · prior_season_games 7 · historical_stat_avg 11.8 · current_season_min_avg 30.4 · recent_vs_baseline_flag stable · minutes_source_confidence diverge_low_confidence

Jamal Murray Over 4.5 REBLOSS −1.00ubet +117 · bet_clv:2489160 · disciplined · captured 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z · grade_v2 PASS · p_hit 48.9% · unexplained · actual 1 · 38.3 min · started · season_avg 6.3 · active_status active · historical_min_avg 38.9 · prior_season_games 7 · rebound_trend_flag stable · tpa_rate_delta_pct 0.031 · historical_stat_avg 5.6 · current_season_min_avg 38.5 · recent_vs_baseline_flag stable · minutes_source_confidence stable

Data fetches · 21

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sds analytics opponent_defense (away)ok 200 · 23 ms

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sds schedule/team (meetings)ok · 29 ms

sds rest/team (away)ok 200 · 100 ms

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sds injuries/game/{id}ok 200 · 156 ms

grading verdict/board (price-only)failed 502 · 192 ms

grading picks/published (saved-only)ok · 215 ms

grading picks/nightlyok 200 · 290 ms

odds player timeline (assists)failed 503 · 92 ms

odds player timeline (rebounds)failed 503 · 100 ms

grading clv/picksok 200 · 104 ms

odds player timeline (points)failed 503 · 114 ms

dh lineups/{id}/deltaok 200 · 507 ms

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