The tide is high, but I'm holding on. "The Tide is High" - Blondie

Game Outcomes

Each point is a completed game — x: home team's season-to-date value entering the game, y: away team's. home win home loss

Based on 5259 of 5489 completed games where both teams entered with a season-to-date value.

How useful is it?

AUC
0.669
Better team wins
62.2%
Games
5,259

A moderate signal — one of the more informative single stats.

Reading the chart: points below the dashed diagonal are games where the home team entered with the better value; a predictive stat shows more green there and more red above the diagonal. AUC summarizes exactly that separation — 0.50 is a coin flip, 1.00 is perfect.