Putting Up Numbers· NBA

Devin Vassell’s points at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed guards, Devin Vassell was 0.2 points over at home and 6.9 points over away in 2026-27, 6 games against 2. The plain averages are 8.8 and 16.0, a difference of 7.2. Both back-to-backs were away. All 5 games with a day off or more were at home.

2 games away 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 −6.7 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 −7.2 difference in points at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 17 times in 100.

The games

at homeaway
Devin Vassell’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultpointsExpected
Oct 20, 2026vsOKCL78.6
Oct 23, 2026vsHOUL109.0
Oct 24, 2026@DALW118.9
Oct 27, 2026vsSACW147.6
Oct 28, 2026@UTAW219.3
Oct 31, 2026vsMINW98.7
Nov 2, 2026vsUTAW118.9
Nov 4, 2026vsDALW29.1

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, 15%.
  • 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.