Crystalball is a statistical method of predicting outcomes of NBA games. Accuracy has varied from 64% to 68% over the last couple of years that it has been operational. Feel free to predict NBA games using the simple script as outlined below.
Notes for the 2020-2021 Season:
No home or away dis/advantages due to no in-person attendance at games (COVID-19)
predict_game.py is the new and improved version of the game outcome predictor.
To run: python3 predict_game.py <home_year> <home_team_id> <away_year> <away_team_id>
For example: python3 predict_game.py 2021 MEM 2021 ATL
sim.py contains the primary methods for simulating games
utils.py contains methods for cleaning / parsing player data
Total Results
| Total Games |
Games Predicted Correctly |
Accuracy |
| 23 |
15 |
65.2% |
Update: I stopped writing up the daily predictions in the readme, but let me know if that's something you want to see.
12.29.20 Forecast
| "Home" |
"Away" |
Predicted Winner + % |
Prediction Timestamp |
Real Winner |
Notes |
CLE |
NYK |
CLE 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
NYK |
xx |
PHI |
TOR |
PHI 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
PHI |
xx |
DET |
GSW |
DET 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
GSW |
xx |
IND |
BOS |
IND 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
BOS |
xx |
WAS |
CHI |
WAS 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
CHI |
xx |
MIA |
MIL |
MIA 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
MIL |
xx |
OKC |
ORL |
ORL 88.36% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
ORL |
xx |
PHO |
NOP |
PHO 100.0% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
PHO |
xx |
SAC |
DEN |
SAC 98.96% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
SAC |
xx |
LAC |
MIN |
LAC 59.49% |
12/29/2020 16:18 |
LAC |
xx |
12.26.20 Forecast
| "Home" |
"Away" |
Predicted Winner + % |
Prediction Timestamp |
Real Winner |
Notes |
MEM |
ATL |
ATL 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
ATL |
xx |
DET |
CLE |
CLE 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
CLE |
xx |
WAS |
ORL |
ORL 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
ORL |
xx |
CHO |
OKC |
xx |
xx |
xx |
No data on OKC yet |
NYK |
PHI |
PHI 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
PHI |
xx |
CHI |
IND |
IND 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
IND |
xx |
SAS |
TOR |
SAS 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
SAS |
xx |
UTA |
MIN |
UTA 100.0% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
MIN |
xx |
SAC |
PHO |
SAC 98.945% |
12/26/2020 14:02 |
SAC |
xx |
POR |
HOU |
xx |
xx |
xx |
No data on HOU yet |
12.25.20 Forecast
| "Home" |
"Away" |
Predicted Winner + % |
Prediction Timestamp |
Real Winner |
Notes |
MIA |
NOP |
NOP 100.0% |
12/24/2020 18:43 |
MIA |
xx |
MIL |
GSW |
MIL 100.0% |
12/24/2020 18:43 |
MIL |
xx |
BOS |
BRK |
BRK 100.0% |
12/24/2020 18:43 |
BRK |
xx |
LAL |
DAL |
DAL 53.397% |
12/24/2020 19:04 |
LAL |
xx |
DEN |
LAC |
LAC 78.898% |
12/24/2020 18:43 |
LAC |
xx |