The Most Important Games for Magic 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. Magic fans can use this table to identify the most interesting games in the upcoming week of play.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
Game Winner |
Magic Resultant Probabilities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifing Group Finish | Elimination | ||||
| 1* Advancement to the Knock-Out Round |
2** Possible advancement to the Knock-Out Round |
3 | |||
| Magic (0‑0) vs Celtics (1‑0) |
29 | Magic Wins | 26% | 16% | 58% |
| Current Probabilities | 18% | 15% | 67% | ||
| Celtics Wins | 2% | 13% | 84% | ||
| Nets (0‑0) vs Pistons (0‑0) |
2 | Nets Wins | 20% | 15% | 65% |
| Current Probabilities | 18% | 15% | 67% | ||
| Pistons Wins | 17% | 16% | 66% | ||