NBA · v0 Research

Pace & Total Tendency

Per-team pace (possessions/game), points scored, points allowed, and combined total environment over the last 14 days. League averages and per-team deltas surface where games tend to run high or low.

Sport NBA MLB · See F5 / NRFI

What this is. A pace and total-points research surface for the NBA slate. Use it to see which teams play fastest, who's in the most-points environment, and which defenses suppress totals. Not a betting recommendation; not picks. Today's league averages: 0.0 est. possessions/game, 0.0 total points/game.

Pace isn't published yet. The Pace feed for the NBA has not been written. This page fills in once the first daily build lands.

How this works

For each game in the 14-day window, both teams' scoring possessions are estimated and per-team averages are computed across games played. Both sides of every game need to be observed via player_logs for the row to count — preseason games and All-Star events are excluded.

Pace — FGA + 0.44 × FTA per team per game (Dean Oliver reduced form). Slight undercount vs the full possessions formula (which requires turnovers + offensive rebounds, neither in current game-logs), but consistent across teams so rankings hold. v0.5 will swap in a full formula when team-level box scores are captured.
Points scored / allowed — sum of each team's players' points; "allowed" is the opponent's total.
Total environment — scored + allowed. Highest values are over-leaning environments; lowest are under-leaning.
vs Lg Avg — this team minus the league pool average for the same view.
Labels — Fast (pace ≥ +3 vs lg), Slow (≤ −3), Over-lean (total ≥ +6), Under-lean (total ≤ −6). Thresholds tighten as the season fills in.
Completeness pill — High (5+ games), Medium (3–4), Low (1–2), Insufficient (0).

Note: when only one team's player logs have been ingested for a game, that game's pace entry may reflect partial data. This self-corrects on the next pipeline cycle.

Refreshes with each NBA pipeline cycle. Source feed: public/nba/pace.json, built by scripts/basketball/pace.py --league nba.