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Tennessee TitansatNew York GiantsEXPERIMENTAL

MetLife Stadium

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64°F · 14 mph wind from the N · 68% chance of rain · rain showers likely — not used by the model; no weather term enters the numbers below.

Simulation story

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TEN @ NYG

Tennessee Titans at New York Giants at MetLife Stadium.

Simulation

What our model expects

10,000 simulated games · model nfl-regular-season-public-v1

Projected score

TEN 20 — 26 NYG

the middle of our simulated outcomes, not a call on the exact final

Win chance

TEN 29.7% · NYG 67.7%

how often each side won in 10,000 simulations · ties 2.5%

Total points (both teams)

8 in 10 simulations landed between 29 and 63

NYG winning margin

a minus means TEN wins by that much · 8 in 10 between -12 and 22

Model details

From the margin-of-victory Elo win head, published exactly as evaluated on held-out 2006–2021 — no shrink toward 50% is applied, and no claim to out-predict the sportsbook market is made. Generated 2026-09-24T19:52:17Z under model nfl-regular-season-public-v1 and frozen pre-kickoff; every forecast is settled against the official result.

Projected scorecard

expected statistical summaries · not one simulated game

TEN 20 — 26 NYGwin chance TEN 29.7% · NYG 67.7%total 46 (29–63)margin +5

TEN

Likely TD scorers

Tony Pollard 35.5% · questionable

Tyjae Spears 27.8% · questionable

Carnell Tate 26.4% · available role uncertain

Passing

Cam Ward 181 pass yds (96–304) · available role uncertain

Rushing leaders

Tony Pollard 50 rush yds (13–132) · questionable

Tyjae Spears 15 rush yds (1–64) · questionable

New arrivals · not in these numbers

Per game at their previous club — history, not a projection.

Michael Carter 2.4 rec · 17.5 yds/g at ARI

Wan'Dale Robinson 5.2 rec · 57.3 yds/g at NYG

Receiving leaders

Carnell Tate 5 rec · 50 yds · available role uncertain

Tyjae Spears 3 rec · 24 yds · questionable

Elic Ayomanor 3 rec · 31 yds · available role uncertain

NYG

Likely TD scorers

Cam Skattebo 44.1% · available role uncertain

Isaiah Likely 40.7% · available role uncertain

Malik Nabers 26.6% · questionable

Passing

Jameis Winston 142 pass yds (69–253) · available role uncertain

Rushing leaders

Cam Skattebo 44 rush yds (11–115) · available role uncertain

Tyrone Tracy Jr. 13 rush yds (1–57) · available role uncertain

New arrivals · not in these numbers

Per game at their previous club — history, not a projection.

Darnell Mooney 2.1 rec · 29.5 yds/g at ATL

Calvin Austin III 2.3 rec · 25.3 yds/g at PIT

Isaiah Likely 2.5 rec · 27.9 yds/g at BAL

Receiving leaders

Isaiah Likely 6 rec · 61 yds · available role uncertain

Malik Nabers 4 rec · 43 yds · questionable

Malachi Fields 3 rec · 30 yds · available role uncertain

pass interceptions · First/last/2+ touchdown — withheld, with the exact bar each failed

pass interceptions: RESEARCH_ONLY
First/last/2+ touchdown: DISABLED — no ordering model and no calibration receipt of their own; never derived from anytime probabilities

Range

How wide the outcomes are

the 10th to 90th percentile of each team's simulated score

Team	Low (10th)	Projected	High (90th)
Tennessee Titans	9	20	33
New York Giants	13	26	37

Exact score

The likeliest final scores

from an event-based simulation of touchdowns and field goals, solved onto the median margin and total above

Score (TEN – NYG)	Chance
17–20	0.87%
24–27	0.76%
27–24	0.70%
20–17	0.68%
17–27	0.60%
20–23	0.59%

No single scoreline is likely — these are the most common of hundreds. The projected score above is derived from the medians and answers a different question: the middle of the distribution, not its most common point.

Key numbers

How often it lands on 3, 7, 10 or 14

football's margins pile up on those four — this is the one thing a normal-draw model cannot show you

Margin	This game	Last 3 regular seasons
Decided by exactly 3	10.2%	14.2%
Decided by exactly 7	6.9%	8.3%
Decided by exactly 10	5.5%	4.2%
Decided by exactly 14	4.7%	4.4%
Any of the four	27.3%	31.1%

The right-hand column is what actually happened across 816 regular-season games (2023, 2024, 2025) — the same finals this engine was fitted to. It gets the shape right, with 3 the most common margin by a distance, and it is not calibrated to the number: it puts less weight on 3 and more on 10 than those seasons did.

TEN touchdowns

2.4

NYG touchdowns

2.8

TEN field goals

1.6

NYG field goals

1.9

Tied after regulation

3.8%

Comparison

Us versus the sportsbooks

two independent reads, shown side by side

No current sportsbook capture covers this game.

Player projections · 23 modelled

The player board

Every modelled player, with his availability. Players listed out carry no volume projection.

Every receiving family for one player on one row, ranked by expected receptions.

Player	Team	Availability	Receptions (10th–90th)	Rec yards (10th–90th)	TD chance
Isaiah Likely	NYG	role uncertain	6 (2–12)	61 (26–120)	40.7%
Carnell Tate	TEN	role uncertain	5 (1–10)	50 (19–103)	26.4%
Malik Nabers	NYG	questionable	4 (1–8)	43 (14–94)	26.6%
Tyjae Spears	TEN	questionable	3 (0–6)	24 (4–60)	27.8%
Elic Ayomanor	TEN	role uncertain	3 (0–6)	31 (5–77)	21.0%
Malachi Fields	NYG	role uncertain	3 (1–6)	30 (6–73)	20.2%
Gunnar Helm	TEN	role uncertain	3 (0–6)	25 (5–61)	15.3%
Cam Skattebo	NYG	role uncertain	2 (0–4)	16 (0–46)	44.1%
Theo Johnson	NYG	role uncertain	2 (0–5)	20 (0–56)	15.9%
Wan'Dale Robinson	TEN	role uncertain	2 (0–6)	24 (3–61)	14.2%
Calvin Ridley	TEN	role uncertain	2 (0–4)	17 (0–53)	10.7%
Tony Pollard	TEN	questionable	1 (0–3)	9 (0–34)	35.5%
Devin Singletary	NYG	role uncertain	1 (0–4)	12 (0–39)	25.2%
Xavier Restrepo	TEN	role uncertain	1 (0–4)	15 (0–47)	10.9%
Darnell Mooney	NYG	role uncertain	1 (0–4)	15 (0–50)	10.7%
Chimere Dike	TEN	role uncertain	1 (0–3)	10 (0–38)	9.4%
Gunner Olszewski	NYG	role uncertain	1 (0–3)	9 (0–37)	8.5%
Jalin Hyatt	NYG	role uncertain	1 (0–3)	8 (0–35)	8.5%

New arrivals · not in the simulated numbers above

Per game at their previous team — history, not a projection.

Player	Team	Availability	Last club	Per game (prior club)
Darnell Mooney WR	NYG	active uncertain	ATL · 15g	2.1 rec · 29.5 yds
Calvin Austin III WR	NYG	active uncertain	PIT · 15g	2.3 rec · 25.3 yds
Isaiah Likely TE	NYG	active uncertain	BAL · 11g	2.5 rec · 27.9 yds
Michael Carter RB	TEN	active uncertain	ARI · 16g	2.4 rec · 17.5 yds · 25.6 rush yds
Wan'Dale Robinson WR	TEN	active uncertain	NYG · 18g	5.2 rec · 57.3 yds

Families not shown, and the exact bar each failed (2)

pass interceptions: RESEARCH_ONLY
First/last/2+ touchdown: DISABLED — no ordering model and no calibration receipt of their own; never derived from anytime probabilities

Scoring outlooktop 6 of 23 by TD chance · full list in the board’s TD tab

44.1% Cam Skattebo · NYG · available role uncertain
40.7% Isaiah Likely · NYG · available role uncertain
35.5% Tony Pollard · TEN · questionable
27.8% Tyjae Spears · TEN · questionable
26.6% Malik Nabers · NYG · questionable
26.4% Carnell Tate · TEN · available role uncertain

Anytime-scorer probability means scoring a touchdown — never throwing one. Void if the player does not play; questionable players carry their state above.

Reading key

What these numbers mean

Projected score: The middle outcome across every simulated game — not a prediction of the exact final.
Win chance: How often each side won across the simulations, after the calibration described above.
80% range: Eight in ten simulated games landed inside this band. Real games land outside it too.
pp (percentage points): The plain difference between two percentages. A gap is a difference, not an advantage.
Experimental: Published while its out-of-sample record is still accumulating. Every forecast is frozen before kickoff and graded against the official result.

Provenance

Where this came from

model: nfl-regular-season-public-v1 v2
simulations: 10,000
input hash: 5ab9f02d36fd13a1
generated: 2026-09-24T19:52:17Z
kickoff: 2026-09-27T17:00Z
state: UPCOMING

Player-family model provenance (4 published)

Rushing yards: Share-level model: cleared every bar when re-tested on 2014–2021 (14,502 player-games) — a second look at seasons examined once before, not a blind test. Each week's forecast is frozen before the first kickoff and graded; its blind 2026 record is still accumulating (111 graded player-games so far).
Receiving yards: Share-level model: cleared every bar when re-tested on 2014–2021 (27,134 player-games) — a second look at seasons examined once before, not a blind test. Each week's forecast is frozen before the first kickoff and graded; its blind 2026 record is still accumulating (200 graded player-games so far).
Receptions: Share-level model: cleared every bar when re-tested on 2014–2021 (27,134 player-games) — a second look at seasons examined once before, not a blind test. Each week's forecast is frozen before the first kickoff and graded; its blind 2026 record is still accumulating (200 graded player-games so far).
Anytime touchdown: Opportunity touchdown model: cleared every bar on a blind test of 2014–2021 (35,128 player-games never used to build it). Probabilities condition on playing — a player who does not play settles void. Each week's forecast is frozen before the first kickoff and graded; its blind 2026 record is still accumulating (267 graded player-games so far).

Our win chances come from a team rating that weights how decisively teams win. Tested on 4,281 past games it had never seen (2006–2021), it scored 0.629 on log loss (lower is better) — better than our previous rating's 0.642 and a coin flip's 0.693, but short of the sportsbooks' own odds at 0.610. It has NOT been shown to beat the sportsbook market. Where our win and margin ratings disagree on the favourite, the previous rating is used for that game. The 2026 season evaluation still runs under bars frozen in August, so every forecast stays experimental.

Educational and paper-only — not betting advice.