Putting Up Numbers· NBA

Ajay Mitchell’s points at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed guards, Ajay Mitchell was 8.4 points over at home and 3.0 points over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 4. The plain averages are 20.8 and 14.8, a difference of 6.0.

4 games at home is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

points a game over expected

A +5.4 difference in points over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 17 times in 100.

A +6.0 difference in points at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Ajay Mitchell’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultpointsExpected
Oct 20, 2026@SASW410.3
Oct 22, 2026vsDENW1211.2
Oct 25, 2026vsLACW1813.7
Oct 26, 2026vsPHXW3012.4
Oct 28, 2026@DALL2911.6
Oct 31, 2026@HOUL612.1
Nov 2, 2026@CLEW2013.0
Nov 4, 2026vsCLEW2312.1

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed guards in its other 2026-27 games, minus 1.3 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for guards that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s guards’ points in his games, 20%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 96% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut into stretches, one a 15 games, where the dates leave the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.