Mike James

AS Monaco

Small forward 185 cm USA 36 yr #55
-1.6 Predictability score 33 games started, 2025-26
Season 2025-26 season backtest

Projected vs actual profile

Season averages, axes scaled to an elite Euroleague starter level.

Model vs naive baseline

The naive forecaster projects the average of season and last-5 games. We publish the comparison for every stat, whichever side wins.

StatSkillAvgModel MAENaive MAE
Points +6.8% 16.52 4.99 5.18
Rebounds -6.3% 3.52 1.36 1.32
Assists -5.9% 6.55 1.78 1.66
3PM +0.2% 1.36 1.02 1.03
PIR -5.4% 19.61 5.79 5.73

Skill = CRPS improvement of the full probability distribution over a naive rolling average, per game, measured on the same games. The dotted stats (points, rebounds, PIR) drive the headline score; assists and threes are shown for transparency.

Game by game: predicted vs actual

The shaded band is the model's 10th to 90th percentile before tip-off. Dots are what he actually did.

Every game he started

DateOpponent PointsReboundsAssists3PMPIR
2026-05-05 vs Olympiacos Piraeus 16 (16.5) 6 (3.1) 6 (5.7) 2 (1.6) 16 (19.4)
2026-04-30 @ Olympiacos Piraeus 7 (16.0) 4 (2.9) 3 (5.5) 1 (1.5) 9 (18.2)
2026-04-28 @ Olympiacos Piraeus 19 (15.2) 4 (2.8) 7 (5.3) 1 (1.5) 30 (16.9)
2026-04-24 vs FC Barcelona 13 (16.7) 3 (3.1) 10 (5.8) 2 (1.6) 19 (19.4)
2026-04-21 @ Panathinaikos Athens 25 (16.3) 5 (2.7) 7 (5.5) 4 (1.5) 27 (18.1)
2026-04-17 vs Hapoel Tel Aviv 20 (17.1) 3 (2.7) 7 (5.6) 1 (1.6) 28 (19.1)
2026-04-10 vs FC Barcelona 16 (16.9) 2 (3.1) 2 (6.2) 1 (1.6) 19 (18.4)
2026-04-08 vs ASVEL Villeurbanne 5 (18.4) 5 (3.1) 5 (6.4) 0 (1.7) 10 (20.7)
2026-03-12 vs Olympiacos Piraeus 14 (17.6) 5 (3.0) 5 (6.3) 0 (1.6) 22 (21.0)
2026-03-05 @ Fenerbahce Istanbul 14 (16.5) 7 (2.9) 8 (5.6) 1 (1.4) 23 (18.1)
2026-02-26 vs Maccabi Tel Aviv 9 (18.8) 2 (3.6) 6 (6.7) 0 (1.9) 9 (21.6)
2026-02-13 vs Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 17 (18.4) 3 (2.9) 8 (6.4) 0 (1.9) 17 (20.8)
2026-02-05 @ FC Bayern Munich 30 (17.1) 4 (3.0) 4 (6.0) 3 (1.8) 29 (18.0)
2026-02-03 @ Zalgiris Kaunas 19 (17.1) 2 (3.0) 10 (6.0) 2 (1.9) 25 (18.3)
2026-01-30 vs Virtus Bologna 17 (17.6) 2 (2.9) 9 (6.3) 2 (1.8) 19 (19.5)
2026-01-22 @ Real Madrid 17 (16.4) 6 (2.8) 7 (5.6) 1 (1.7) 19 (16.8)
2026-01-20 vs Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 14 (17.2) 3 (2.8) 7 (6.2) 1 (1.7) 13 (19.6)
2026-01-15 @ Paris Basketball 23 (17.4) 5 (3.1) 4 (6.1) 3 (1.5) 27 (19.5)
2026-01-08 @ Valencia Basket 14 (16.8) 2 (3.1) 10 (5.4) 2 (1.6) 20 (17.1)
2026-01-06 vs Partizan Belgrade 11 (18.3) 3 (3.1) 8 (6.1) 1 (1.6) 13 (20.2)
2025-12-30 @ FC Barcelona 19 (17.1) 4 (2.6) 5 (5.5) 2 (1.5) 18 (18.4)
2025-12-26 vs Real Madrid 15 (17.2) 4 (3.0) 5 (6.0) 2 (1.5) 14 (18.9)
2025-12-19 vs FC Bayern Munich 14 (17.8) 3 (3.0) 6 (5.9) 0 (1.7) 22 (19.3)
2025-12-17 @ Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 21 (16.6) 5 (2.7) 5 (5.5) 1 (1.6) 21 (17.2)
2025-12-12 vs Fenerbahce Istanbul 20 (16.3) 3 (2.7) 5 (5.7) 2 (1.5) 14 (17.7)
2025-12-04 vs Paris Basketball 16 (18.3) 3 (3.2) 7 (6.1) 2 (1.9) 20 (20.8)
2025-11-26 vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul 7 (17.8) 2 (3.1) 6 (6.1) 0 (1.8) 13 (19.6)
2025-11-19 @ ASVEL Villeurbanne 12 (17.2) 1 (3.4) 7 (5.8) 0 (1.8) 16 (18.4)
2025-11-13 @ Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 18 (16.3) 2 (2.9) 7 (5.4) 1 (1.6) 20 (17.2)
2025-11-11 @ Partizan Belgrade 13 (17.4) 2 (3.2) 5 (6.0) 0 (2.0) 12 (19.0)
2025-11-06 @ Maccabi Tel Aviv 34 (16.1) 6 (3.1) 7 (5.8) 4 (1.8) 37 (17.3)
2025-10-31 vs Panathinaikos Athens 13 (16.5) 1 (2.8) 8 (6.0) 0 (2.0) 17 (17.1)
2025-10-29 @ Olympiacos Piraeus 23 (15.0) 4 (2.7) 10 (4.9) 3 (1.9) 29 (14.9)

Bold = actual, in brackets = model projection before the game. Only games he started are shown: our projections assume the starting five, so a scratch is not a model miss.

About this data

The 2025-26 season is a holdout backtest: the models were trained on Euroleague seasons up to 2022-23 and tuned on 2023-24, then predicted every 2025-26 game. The season is fully out-of-sample, with one caveat: historical features use realized lineups, while live production predicts from the expected starting five, so live accuracy can run marginally lower. PIR is the Euroleague's own performance index rating, the competition's summary number for a player's game, and the only projected stat here that can be negative. Projections and full distributions for today's games are on the Euroleague player projections page, team rating profiles on Euroleague team profiles, and the methodology behind every model on the methodology page.