NBA · Finalupdated 21:15 UTC

Washington Wizards vs Cleveland Cavaliers

at Cleveland Cavaliers

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WAS 111 – CLE 121

Final

No verified saved picks were returned; missing records do not prove no picks qualified.

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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How to read this page

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.
'Your prediction' lets you pick Over or Under on any line before the game starts; we check your predictions the same way and keep your record, and one game of results proves nothing.
Team codes on this page: WAS = Washington Wizards, CLE = Cleveland Cavaliers.

Saved player research

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 #115 · 28 Oct, 13:01 UTC · 0 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.

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. This does not confirm that bookmakers have posted no lines.

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.

Washington Wizardsplaying CLE

18 players have no line from any bookmaker: Young (36 expected minutes) · Davis (33 min) · +16 more

Cleveland Cavaliersplaying WAS

17 players have no line from any bookmaker: Mitchell (35 expected minutes) · Mobley (34 min) · +15 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 21:15 UTC

Who is out

Out E. Udeh, Jr. (CLE) · earlier listed as available (changed Sat 18:15 UTC)

Out Diop · earlier listed as unlisted (changed Thu 16:15 UTC)

Out Tomlin · earlier listed as unlisted (changed Thu 16:15 UTC)

Okpara · earlier listed as out, now available (changed Sun 21:45 UTC) · 1 min in the last game

Out Watkins · earlier listed as unlisted (changed Thu 20:45 UTC) · 34, 31 and 28 min in the last 3 games

Out Champagnie · earlier listed as unlisted (changed Tue 20:45 UTC) · 4, 26 and 21 min in the last 3 games

Out Beekman · earlier listed as available (changed 18:15 UTC) · 32, 13 and 31 min in the last 3 games

Johnson · earlier listed as may not play, now available (changed Fri 22:15 UTC) · 23, 23 and 19 min in the last 3 games

Out Vukčević · earlier listed as unlisted (changed Thu 20:45 UTC) · 11, 20 and 16 min in the last 3 games

Out Sarr · left knee soreness (knee) · WAS

Out Gill · low back spasms (back) · WAS

Out Tyson · right ankle sprain (ankle) · CLE

May not play Watson · right hamstring tightness/soreness (hamstring) · CLE

Lineups

Starting lineup confirmed (Wed 22:28 UTC) · NBA Official Lineups API, a lineup news service

Playing time

For 2 players (Hezonja, Thomas) 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. This does not confirm that bookmakers have posted no lines.

Looking back

Flagged before the game: E. Udeh, Jr. (CLE) out (Sat 18:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Diop out (Thu 16:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Tomlin out (Thu 16:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Okpara out (Sun 21:45 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Watkins out (Thu 20:45 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Champagnie out (Tue 20:45 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Beekman out (18:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Johnson out (Fri 22:15 UTC) · played

Flagged before the game: Vukčević out (Thu 20:45 UTC) · played

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.

FinalNo verified saved CORE picks were returned; missing records do not prove no picks qualified. · 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

CLE vs WAS · last 25 games · CLE leads · CLE record 19–6 · average score 117.1–107.4 · CLE has won by 9.6 on average

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

28 Oct · WAS 111 at CLE 121CLE won

12 Apr · WAS 117 at CLE 130CLE won

What each defense gives up per game

WAS gives up109.7 points · 49.0 rebounds · 23.8 assists · 28.7% from three-point range

CLE gives up116.0 points · 44.8 rebounds · 28.3 assists · 33.7% 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.

WAS gives up 109.7 points a game · 12th of 29 · league average 113.5−3.8 vs average

CLE gives up 116.0 points a game · 20th of 29 · league average 113.5+2.5 vs average

How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had CLE expected to win by 9.5, expected total 238.5 (Wed 03:16 UTC) and later CLE expected to win by 9.5, expected total 240.5 (Wed 22:59 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

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 · 0

No raw pick rows for this game.

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

No graded rows for this game.

Data fetches · 17

sds defense/team (away)ok 200 · 14 ms

sds defense/team (home)ok 200 · 14 ms

sds analytics opponent_defense (away)ok 200 · 15 ms

sds analytics opponent_defense (home)ok 200 · 15 ms

grading picks/nightlyok 200 · 17 ms

sds schedule/team (meetings)ok · 17 ms

sds games/{id}ok 200 · 88 ms

sds rest/team (away)ok 200 · 92 ms

sds lineups/{id}ok 200 · 96 ms

sds rest/team (home)ok 200 · 96 ms

sds games/{id}/boxscoreok 200 · 106 ms

sds injuries/game/{id}ok 200 · 108 ms

sds history (h2h)ok · 117 ms

grading picks/published (saved-only)ok · 124 ms

dh lineups/{id}/deltaok 200 · 539 ms

grading verdict/board (price-only)failed 502 · 1017 ms

odds game timelineok 200 · 1944 ms

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