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Sacramento State’s assists at home and away

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Sacramento State was 4.0 assists over at home and 2.8 assists under away in 2025-26, 11 games against 16. The plain averages are 17.6 and 9.3, a difference of 8.3.

Sacramento State’s +6.8 at home vs away over expected ranks 1st of the 365 teams with 6 games on each side in 2025-26.

assists a game over expected

A +6.8 difference in assists over expected at home vs away is rare: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up less than once in 100.

A +8.3 difference in assists at home vs away is rare: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up less than once in 100.

The games

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Sacramento State’s games, 2025-26, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultassistsExpected
Nov 4, 2025vsDDominican (CA)W19—
Nov 7, 2025vsJJessupW19—
Nov 11, 2025vsUC Santa BarbaraL1812.2
Nov 14, 2025@UC DavisL1112.6
Nov 16, 2025vsPresbyterianW1313.4
Nov 18, 2025@UCLAL912.7
Nov 21, 2025@CaliforniaL1013.0
Nov 25, 2025vsSSan Francisco StateW24—
Nov 29, 2025@PacificL810.6
Dec 2, 2025@BaylorL1211.2
Dec 20, 2025@California BaptistL810.1
Dec 22, 2025@Cal State NorthridgeL1215.1
Jan 1, 2026@Idaho StateL712.2
Jan 3, 2026@Weber StateL1013.4
Jan 10, 2026@Portland StateL812.1
Jan 15, 2026vsNorthern ArizonaW1714.0
Jan 17, 2026vsNorthern ColoradoW1710.4
Jan 22, 2026@IdahoL1410.5
Jan 24, 2026@Eastern WashingtonL1113.0
Jan 29, 2026vsMontana StateW1311.9
Jan 31, 2026vsMontanaW2213.0
Feb 2, 2026vsWeber StateW2113.9
Feb 7, 2026vsPortland StateL1213.0
Feb 12, 2026@Northern ColoradoL510.1
Feb 14, 2026@Northern ArizonaL613.5
Feb 19, 2026vsEastern WashingtonL1713.8
Feb 21, 2026vsIdahoL1311.7
Feb 26, 2026@MontanaL1112.6
Feb 28, 2026@Montana StateL711.1
Mar 2, 2026vsIdaho StateW2112.5
Mar 7, 2026vsIdaho (neutral)L711.5

Method

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  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2025-26 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 0.6 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 88% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
  • Dominican (CA), Jessup, San Francisco State have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.