NBA · Scheduledupdated 10:56 UTC

Boston Celtics vs Houston Rockets

at Houston Rockets · starts Tue 01:30 UTC

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Legacy signals · publication timing unverified

This game has no durable publication receipt. Legacy CORE signals, if returned, are not backfilled into the published record; missing signals are not a pass.

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: BOS = Boston Celtics, HOU = Houston Rockets.

Saved player research

Picks and prices

Odds of at least 1.70 only · highest odds first

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.

Legacy signals · publication timing unverified

This game has no durable publication receipt. Legacy CORE signals, if returned, are not backfilled into the published record; missing signals are not a pass.

This game’s price receipt is verified. Price readiness does not certify completed recommendation generation.

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.

Game prices observed: 2 Nov, 10:46 UTC
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

11 players checked · 9 whose past record points the other way from the bookmakers' price · 1 out · 0 with too few games

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.

Against this opponent, 1 of 12 players has performed clearly differently and 2 show a slight hint

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.

Boston Celticsplaying HOU

SJayson Tatum · 35 min expected

rebounds 7.5

SDerrick White · 33 min expected

assists 4.5

SPaul George · 33 min expected

assists 3.5

Payton Pritchard · 27 min expected

assists 3.5

SMitchell Robinson · 21 min expected · Out · rest

rebounds 6.5 · bookmakers usually void this line and return the stake if Robinson does not play

6 players have no line from any bookmaker: Queta (21 expected minutes) · Hauser (20 min) · +4 more

Houston Rocketsplaying BOS

SAmen Thompson · 34 min expected

points 15.5

SKevin Durant · 34 min expected

rebounds 5.5

SAlperen Sengun · 33 min expected

assists 5.5

SJabari Smith Jr. · 33 min expected

rebounds 5.5

SFred VanVleet · 30 min expected

assists 5.5

Tari Eason · 25 min expected

points 9.5

Marcus Smart · 20 min expected

3-pointers 1.5

3 players have no line from any bookmaker: Sheppard (15 expected minutes) · Bogdanović (8 min) · +1 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.

A saved expected lineup or availability assumption is not an official injury confirmation.

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

What could go wrong

updated 10:56 UTC

Who is out

Out Robinson · earlier listed as may not play (changed Sun 15:15 UTC) · 19, 25 and 16 min in the last 3 games

Out Carter · illness · BOS

May not play Capela · right ankle sprain (ankle) · HOU

Out Phillips · two-way · HOU

Out Copeland · two-way · HOU

May not play Sheppard · low back strain (back) · HOU

Out Adams · right soleus strain · HOU

Lineups

Expected starting lineup, not yet confirmed

Playing time

1 player is expected to play at least 5 minutes more or fewer than in the last 5 games. For 4 players (George, White, Capela, Bogdanović) we have no real minutes estimate, only a default.

Smart: expected to play 20 minutes, averaged 29.5 in the last 5 games, about 9.5 fewer than usual

Rest

BOS also played the day before this game.

Bookmakers

The reference bookmaker, Pinnacle, offers 0 of the 351 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 prediction

closes at game start, Tue 01:30 UTC

No predictions yetYour record: 0 won, 0 lost

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

HOU vs BOS · last 13 games · BOS leads · HOU record 4–9 · average score 104.7–116.1 · HOU has lost by 11.4 on average

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

No finished games between these teams on file.

What each defense gives up per game

BOS gives up109.2 points · 45.8 rebounds · 24.7 assists · 33.8% from three-point range

HOU gives up108.0 points · 39.3 rebounds · 24.0 assists · 30.0% 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.

BOS gives up 109.2 points a game · 9th of 29 · league average 113.5−4.3 vs average

HOU gives up 108.0 points a game · 7th of 29 · league average 113.5−5.5 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 · 0

No raw pick rows for this game.

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

No graded rows for this game.

Data fetches · 42

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sds analytics player_vs_line (assists)ok 200 · 69 ms

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sds analytics player_vs_line (three_pointers_made)ok 200 · 253 ms

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