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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.

Picks for this game are not posted yet. The players below are up to date.

Why the better price matters

In our past tests, simply taking the highest price offered for a line earned more than any of our own forecasts did.

In that test (25 Aug 2026), taking the best price returned about 2.8 more for every 100 staked than the price we posted did.

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The players

4 players checked · 3 whose past record points the other way from the bookmakers' price · 0 out · 0 with too few games

Rate: the share of this season's games in which the player finished above tonight's line. S beside a name marks an expected starter.

Against this opponent, 0 of 4 players have performed clearly differently and 1 shows a slight hint · No starting lineup yet; showing every player with a line

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.

Atlanta Dreamplaying SEA

Allisha Gray · minutes unknown
points 15.5 → 22 actual
Jordin Canada · minutes unknown
points 10.5 → 12 actual
Rhyne Howard · minutes unknown
rebounds 4.5 → 1 actual

Seattle Stormplaying ATL

Ezi Magbegor · minutes unknown
points 11.5 → 7 actual
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What could go wrong

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Who is out

Nobody is listed as injured on either team.

Lineups

Expected starting lineup, not yet confirmed

Playing time

No playing-time estimates yet.

Our check: these minute estimates (RotoWire) are typically off by about 4 minutes.

Rest

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

Bookmakers

The reference bookmaker, Pinnacle, offers 0 of the 52 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.

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What happened

In 3 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
Rhyne Howard · rebounds 4.5 → 1 · 3.5 below the line · played 39.9 min · no final price
Allisha Gray · points 15.5 → 22 · 6.5 above the line · played 37.8 min · no final price
Ezi Magbegor · points 11.5 → 7 · 4.5 below the line · played 27.5 min · no final price
Jordin Canada · points 10.5 → 12 · 1.5 above the line · played 31.9 min · no final price

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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

SEA vs ATL · last 16 games · SEA leads · SEA record 8–8 · average score 80.1–81.3 · SEA has lost by 1.1 on average

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

31 Jul · SEA 89 at ATL 98SEA lost
9 Jul · SEA 78 at ATL 89SEA lost
27 Jun · ATL 90 at SEA 105SEA won
What each defense gives up per game
ATL gives up84.5 points · 31.0 rebounds · 19.2 assists · 8.1 three-pointers scored against them · opponents make 46.9% of shots · 34.8% from three-point range · 15.4 opponent turnovers
SEA gives up88.9 points · 36.3 rebounds · 21.1 assists · 8.8 three-pointers scored against them · opponents make 44.0% of shots · 32.7% from three-point range · 12.8 opponent turnovers
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.

ATL gives up 84.5 points a game · 4th of 15 · league average 87.0−2.6 vs average
SEA gives up 88.9 points a game · 10th of 15 · league average 87.0+1.9 vs average
How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had SEA expected to win by 8.5, expected total 156.5 () and had not changed it by .

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 · 31
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sds analytics player_vs_line (points)ok 200 · 151 ms
sds analytics player_vs_line (points)ok 200 · 169 ms
sds analytics player_vs_line (rebounds)ok 200 · 173 ms
sds analytics player_vs_line (points)ok 200 · 188 ms
sds analytics player_vs_teamok 200 · 286 ms
sds analytics player_vs_teamok 200 · 322 ms
sds analytics player_vs_teamok 200 · 331 ms
sds analytics player_vs_teamok 200 · 368 ms
odds game timelineok 200 · 568 ms
odds player timeline (points)ok 200 · 641 ms
odds player timeline (points)ok 200 · 687 ms
odds player timeline (points)ok 200 · 690 ms
odds player timeline (rebounds)ok 200 · 753 ms
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