sportsdata · three nba seasons

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Section 01 · Distribution

How most games end.

The shape of normal. Most NBA games are decided by single digits. A handful are decided by 50+. Here's the histogram.

Section 02 · Extremes

The games that broke the curve.

Every distribution has tails. These are the tails.

Section 03 · Streaks

Three seasons of every team.

Every game, every result, every team. Wins in green, losses in red. Read left to right. Some teams went on runs that changed how their cities felt about basketball.

Section 04 · The Findings

The 35 most interesting things.

Ranked by surprise. The algorithmic detector found these patterns by scanning every game in the dataset for streaks, blowouts, nail-biters, and statistical anomalies.