Knicks-Spurs Thriller: The Unbelievable NBA Playoff Series That Defied Every Expectation in 25 Years
But do we have a metric to determine how this series compares to series from the past?
Of course, we do. Introducing our Playoff Series Excitement Index.
The logic is simple: We want to know how late in a game viewers could’ve turned off their TV and not regretted missing out on something exciting. To do that, we used our live win probability model to determine that latest point in a game in which both teams had at least a 10% chance of winning. Then we average out the time remaining to determine the closeness of each series. For overtime games, we use 0 as the time remaining.



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