Talen Horton Tucker

Fenerbahce Istanbul

Point guard 193 cm USA 26 yr #8
5.6 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 +9.3% 14.52 4.69 5.0
Rebounds +1.6% 3.97 1.56 1.59
Assists +5.7% 2.21 1.17 1.23
3PM -20.4% 0.66 0.98 0.81
PIR +5.9% 13.79 6.81 6.86

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
2026-05-22 @ Olympiacos Piraeus 16 (15.7) 7 (3.2) 3 (2.6) 1 (1.2) 23 (14.0)
2026-05-08 @ Zalgiris Kaunas 21 (14.8) 6 (3.4) 3 (2.6) 0 (1.3) 24 (13.4)
2026-05-06 @ Zalgiris Kaunas 15 (14.8) 2 (3.7) 4 (2.5) 0 (1.4) 11 (13.5)
2026-04-30 vs Zalgiris Kaunas 2 (16.4) 1 (3.9) 6 (2.6) 0 (1.4) -1 (16.2)
2026-04-28 vs Zalgiris Kaunas 15 (16.5) 4 (3.9) 2 (2.6) 1 (1.5) 11 (16.3)
2026-04-16 @ ASVEL Villeurbanne 21 (16.1) 4 (3.9) 3 (2.5) 0 (1.7) 16 (15.8)
2026-04-09 vs Real Madrid 11 (16.3) 5 (3.4) 0 (2.6) 1 (1.5) 11 (15.8)
2026-04-07 @ Hapoel Tel Aviv 10 (16.7) 5 (3.4) 1 (2.7) 2 (1.6) 2 (16.8)
2026-04-01 @ FC Bayern Munich 13 (16.5) 5 (3.4) 3 (2.7) 1 (1.4) 14 (15.5)
2026-03-27 vs Zalgiris Kaunas 18 (17.4) 3 (3.9) 2 (3.2) 0 (1.5) 11 (18.3)
2026-03-24 @ Maccabi Tel Aviv 10 (17.5) 2 (4.2) 6 (2.9) 0 (1.5) 6 (18.2)
2026-02-05 @ Paris Basketball 15 (16.6) 3 (4.2) 6 (2.1) 1 (1.5) 13 (16.6)
2026-02-03 @ FC Barcelona 8 (15.5) 3 (3.6) 1 (2.1) 0 (1.3) 6 (14.8)
2026-01-29 vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul 22 (16.1) 3 (4.0) 2 (2.2) 4 (1.2) 27 (16.4)
2026-01-23 vs Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 21 (15.8) 8 (3.6) 1 (2.0) 0 (1.2) 22 (15.9)
2026-01-16 vs Valencia Basket 10 (15.9) 2 (4.5) 1 (2.2) 0 (1.1) 9 (15.0)
2026-01-08 @ Dubai Basketball 15 (15.3) 5 (3.8) 1 (1.9) 1 (1.1) 12 (14.8)
2026-01-06 vs Olympiacos Piraeus 17 (15.6) 6 (3.9) 2 (1.9) 0 (1.1) 19 (15.5)
2026-01-02 @ Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 12 (16.0) 2 (4.0) 2 (2.1) 0 (1.1) 15 (16.1)
2025-12-23 vs FC Barcelona 16 (15.7) 1 (4.1) 2 (2.3) 0 (1.2) 14 (16.3)
2025-12-18 @ Olimpia Milano 23 (13.9) 5 (4.3) 2 (1.8) 0 (1.2) 25 (12.6)
2025-12-16 vs Panathinaikos Athens 22 (13.9) 6 (3.8) 0 (2.2) 0 (1.3) 22 (13.8)
2025-12-12 @ AS Monaco 24 (11.6) 4 (3.2) 0 (2.1) 1 (1.3) 22 (10.7)
2025-11-25 vs Virtus Bologna 8 (12.7) 3 (3.6) 0 (2.4) 0 (1.3) 4 (13.5)
2025-11-21 @ Partizan Belgrade 6 (13.0) 5 (3.9) 2 (2.1) 0 (1.4) 7 (12.1)
2025-11-13 vs Hapoel Tel Aviv 15 (13.4) 3 (3.3) 2 (2.3) 1 (1.4) 15 (11.9)
2025-11-11 vs Maccabi Tel Aviv 13 (14.1) 4 (3.9) 3 (2.3) 2 (1.5) 14 (14.1)
2025-11-06 vs ASVEL Villeurbanne 6 (13.4) 3 (4.1) 1 (2.2) 1 (1.5) 4 (13.0)
2025-10-28 @ Valencia Basket 16 (14.7) 5 (3.5) 3 (2.4) 2 (1.7) 22 (13.4)

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.