Now she's with one of my good-time buddies, they're drinking in some crosstown bar. "Whipping Post" - The Allman Brothers

Game Outcomes

Each point is a completed game — x: home team's season-to-date value entering the game, y: away team's. home win home loss

Based on 5531 of 5752 completed games where both teams entered with a season-to-date value.

How useful is it?

AUC
0.750
Better team wins
68.1%
Games
5,531

A strong signal — unusually predictive for a single stat.

Reading the chart: points below the dashed diagonal are games where the home team entered with the better value; a predictive stat shows more green there and more red above the diagonal. AUC summarizes exactly that separation — 0.50 is a coin flip, 1.00 is perfect.