In North Carolina way back in the hills, there lived my pappy and he had him a still. "White Lightning" - The Big Bopper

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 5544 of 5764 completed games where both teams entered with a season-to-date value.

How useful is it?

AUC
0.505
Better team wins
50.6%
Games
5,544

On its own, no better than a coin flip at picking winners.

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.