NBA · Finalupdated 21:42 UTC

Sacramento Kings vs New Orleans Pelicans

at New Orleans Pelicans

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SAC 120 – NOP 132

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: SAC = Sacramento Kings, NOP = New Orleans Pelicans.

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 #137 · 29 Oct, 13:00 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.

Sportsbook prices unavailable

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 / 1
Latest publication attempt: not attempted
Reused from this target’s earlier success: 0 games · not newly evaluated by this retry
Latest slate attempt: 30 Oct, 01:19 UTC
Last successful slate evaluation: 29 Oct, 23:17 UTC · before the latest blocked attempt
Status observed since: 29 Oct, 12:14 UTC

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 · 36 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.

Sacramento Kingsplaying NOP

18 players have no line from any bookmaker: Jr. (35 expected minutes) · Sabonis (35 min) · +16 more

New Orleans Pelicansplaying SAC

18 players have no line from any bookmaker: III (32 expected minutes) · Williamson (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 21:42 UTC

Who is out

Out Simmons · right achilles tendon repair/surgery (achilles) · SAC

Out Cardwell · left calf strain (calf) · SAC

Out K. Murray (SAC) · left ankle capsulitis (ankle)

Out Raynaud · right knee subluxation · SAC

Out Pedulla · two-way · SAC

Unlikely to play J. Pierre Jr. (NOP) · two-way

Out Poole · left ankle tendinopathy (ankle) · NOP

Reese · likely to play · two-way · NOP

Unlikely to play Dia · two-way · NOP

III · likely to play · bilateral knee tendinopathy · NOP

Out Missi · left knee contusion/bone bruise (knee) · NOP

Lineup changes unavailable right now.

Lineups

Starting lineup confirmed (Thu 23:16 UTC) · NBA Official Lineups API, a lineup news service

Playing time

For 5 players (Sabonis, Jr., LaVine, Johnson, McGowens) we have no real minutes estimate, only a default.

Rest

NOP also played the day before this game.

Bookmakers

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view. This does not confirm that bookmakers have posted no lines.

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 Fri 02:31 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 SAC · last 26 games · NOP leads · NOP record 15–11 · average score 120.1–114.6 · NOP has won by 5.5 on average

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

29 Oct · SAC 120 at NOP 132NOP won

3 Apr · NOP 113 at SAC 117NOP lost

5 Mar · NOP 133 at SAC 123NOP won

9 Feb · SAC 94 at NOP 120NOP won

What each defense gives up per game

SAC gives up128.3 points · 46.2 rebounds · 30.0 assists · 39.2% 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.

SAC gives up 128.3 points a game · 28th of 29 · league average 113.7+14.6 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

Pinnacle first had NOP expected to win by 6, expected total 237.5 (Thu 03:19 UTC) and later NOP expected to win by 6.5, expected total 235 (Thu 23:42 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

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sds defense/team (away)ok 200 · 16 ms

sds defense/team (home)ok 200 · 17 ms

sds analytics opponent_defense (away)ok 200 · 17 ms

sds analytics opponent_defense (home)ok 200 · 17 ms

sds schedule/team (meetings)ok · 18 ms

grading picks/nightlyok 200 · 21 ms

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sds rest/team (away)ok 200 · 96 ms

sds injuries/game/{id}ok 200 · 98 ms

grading picks/published (saved-only)ok · 98 ms

sds rest/team (home)ok 200 · 103 ms

sds games/{id}/boxscoreok 200 · 108 ms

sds lineups/{id}ok 200 · 235 ms

dh lineups/{id}/deltafailed 404 · 450 ms

odds game timelineok 200 · 944 ms

grading verdict/board (price-only)failed 502 · 5762 ms

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