The Most Important Games for Heat are those games in the upcoming week whose outcome most changes the team's qualifing probabilities. The Importance Factor provides a relative importance between games. Heat fans can use this table to identify the most interesting games in the upcoming week of play.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
Game Winner |
Heat Resultant Probabilities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifing Group Finish | Elimination | ||||
| 1* Advancement to the Knock-Out Round |
2** Possible advancement to the Knock-Out Round |
3 | |||
| Pacers (0‑1) vs Knicks (0‑1) |
6 | Pacers Wins | 25% | 23% | 52% |
| Current Probabilities | 22% | 23% | 55% | ||
| Knicks Wins | 19% | 25% | 57% | ||
| Cavaliers (0‑0) vs Sixers (1‑0) |
1 | Cavaliers Wins | 24% | 21% | 54% |
| Current Probabilities | 22% | 23% | 55% | ||
| Sixers Wins | 21% | 24% | 55% | ||