Predicting NBA Playoff Berths: FiveThirtyEight vs Betting Markets 2021-12-17 TLDR: FiveThirtyEight’s forecasts of NBA playoff berths seem to hold-up OK against betting markets. If you trust them, you should consider betting against the Lakers right now. In The Virtues and … stringr dplyr glue gt rvest janitor lubridate purrr tidyr readr fs broom