The NBA regular season ends next week, but there’s still plenty of drama remaining as teams make their last-ditch plays to either draw a better playoff opponent – or a better lottery position in the draft. The final leg of a season presents an incredibly difficult challenge to the swarm of average fans who predict games weekly for Unanimous AI. These swarms have to keep in mind motivation, injuries, and which teams are resting regulars as we come down the stretch.

Team motivation is one of the factors the swarm takes into account each week, and no team on tonight’s schedule should be more desperate than the New Orleans Pelicans. They’re clinging to the final playoff spot in the east, and tonight they host a Memphis team that has nothing to play for.  That may be the reason the swarm chose the Pellies as their pick of the night tonight.

Going with the “Fear is a hell of a motivator” angle, the swarm’s magnets (which each represent a single person helping to guide the clear puck) make a rapid decision on New Orleans, with high confidence. The swarm also assigned a $100 hypothetical confidence on this game, and chose it head and shoulders above the rest of the games on Wednesday’s schedule for its pick of the night.

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