Sylvain Francisco

Zalgiris Kaunas

Shooting guard 185 cm FRA 29 yr #3
3.8 Predictability score 29 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 +5.7% 17.41 5.79 5.88
Rebounds +3.2% 2.83 1.25 1.32
Assists -2.7% 6.72 1.85 1.9
3PM -1.4% 2.72 1.28 1.24
PIR +2.4% 19.86 7.45 7.37

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
2026-05-08 vs Fenerbahce Istanbul 23 (15.9) 2 (2.9) 11 (5.8) 5 (2.6) 27 (17.4)
2026-05-06 vs Fenerbahce Istanbul 12 (15.8) 7 (2.8) 8 (5.6) 2 (2.6) 13 (17.2)
2026-04-30 @ Fenerbahce Istanbul 11 (15.0) 3 (2.9) 6 (5.4) 1 (2.5) 12 (16.5)
2026-04-28 @ Fenerbahce Istanbul 15 (14.7) 4 (2.8) 6 (5.4) 2 (2.4) 13 (16.8)
2026-04-17 vs Paris Basketball 21 (16.7) 2 (2.7) 5 (6.3) 4 (2.6) 16 (20.2)
2026-04-10 @ Partizan Belgrade 18 (14.9) 1 (2.8) 6 (5.8) 3 (2.5) 26 (19.6)
2026-04-07 vs Dubai Basketball 5 (16.5) 2 (2.8) 6 (6.1) 1 (2.5) 3 (20.8)
2026-04-02 vs FC Barcelona 14 (15.9) 3 (2.6) 8 (5.8) 4 (2.4) 15 (19.1)
2026-03-27 @ Fenerbahce Istanbul 14 (15.9) 1 (2.9) 8 (5.1) 3 (2.3) 19 (18.1)
2026-03-24 vs FC Bayern Munich 14 (17.1) 1 (3.1) 7 (5.8) 1 (2.7) 21 (20.9)
2026-03-20 vs Real Madrid 20 (15.7) 0 (2.9) 5 (5.8) 3 (2.4) 22 (17.8)
2026-02-06 @ Anadolu Efes Istanbul 9 (16.7) 2 (3.2) 5 (6.1) 2 (2.4) 3 (18.7)
2026-02-03 vs AS Monaco 19 (17.0) 3 (3.2) 8 (6.4) 3 (2.4) 26 (19.9)
2026-01-30 @ Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 30 (15.6) 2 (2.9) 5 (6.2) 3 (2.4) 29 (18.0)
2026-01-22 @ Olimpia Milano 25 (14.9) 2 (3.0) 6 (5.9) 4 (2.2) 21 (19.0)
2026-01-20 @ ASVEL Villeurbanne 20 (14.5) 6 (2.9) 4 (6.1) 2 (2.1) 27 (18.3)
2026-01-15 @ Maccabi Tel Aviv 22 (14.5) 4 (2.8) 6 (6.4) 5 (2.2) 25 (17.6)
2025-12-23 vs Panathinaikos Athens 3 (16.3) 3 (2.9) 5 (6.5) 1 (2.3) 2 (19.5)
2025-12-19 vs Partizan Belgrade 22 (17.3) 1 (3.2) 5 (7.1) 4 (2.3) 23 (21.3)
2025-12-17 vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul 10 (17.2) 4 (3.2) 5 (7.0) 2 (2.4) 10 (22.1)
2025-12-11 @ Paris Basketball 26 (16.8) 4 (3.4) 5 (6.5) 4 (2.3) 28 (21.0)
2025-12-04 vs Maccabi Tel Aviv 13 (17.1) 5 (3.0) 7 (7.3) 0 (2.3) 15 (22.0)
2025-11-25 vs Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 23 (16.0) 3 (2.8) 11 (6.5) 3 (2.2) 32 (20.5)
2025-11-20 @ Real Madrid 33 (14.8) 3 (2.7) 11 (6.1) 7 (1.8) 37 (18.5)
2025-11-14 @ Dubai Basketball 15 (14.4) 4 (2.5) 9 (5.4) 3 (1.8) 21 (16.6)
2025-11-12 @ Olympiacos Piraeus 15 (13.7) 1 (2.8) 3 (5.9) 1 (2.0) 14 (16.6)
2025-11-07 vs Valencia Basket 15 (15.7) 2 (3.1) 7 (6.2) 1 (2.2) 19 (19.0)
2025-10-30 vs ASVEL Villeurbanne 15 (15.3) 4 (3.2) 7 (6.0) 2 (2.3) 22 (18.3)
2025-10-28 vs Virtus Bologna 23 (14.1) 3 (2.4) 10 (5.4) 3 (2.1) 35 (15.7)

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.