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If they're out · GSW

Who gains without Payton, Butler, Moody and Horford

Payton, Butler, Moody and Horford sat together only once since last season, so this comes from who replaced each of them and how the team played without each one. Santos usually plays 21 minutes; our estimate: 26 minutes (Lean).

2 games with all of them out since last season: Mar 21, Apr 1 (small sample). Their minutes when they play: II 17, III 31, Moody 26, Horford 21.

Butler has missed 10 of the team's last 10; Moody has missed 10 of the team's last 10, so most of their minutes are already in everyone's recent numbers.

Likely strong evidenceLean some evidenceWorth watching a tip, not a promise
Gui Santos
F · 73 games since last season
Lean
Minutes21 → 26 +6
Shots7 → 10 +3
Fantasy pts19 → 25 +6
  • 24 minutes and 15 fantasy points a game in the 1 game he played with all of them out
  • came in for 24% of the times one of them left a game
  • +16 minutes in 16 games without Butler alone since last season
  • +12 minutes in 18 games without Moody alone since last season
Brandin Podziemski
G · 86 games since last season
Worth watching
Minutes29 → 31 +3
Shots12 → 14 +2
Fantasy pts28 → 31 +4
  • 21 minutes and 16 fantasy points a game in the 2 games he played with all of them out
  • came in for 30% of the times one of them left a game
  • +4 minutes in 23 games without Moody alone since last season
  • +2 minutes in 17 games without Butler alone since last season
Draymond Green
F-C · 73 games since last season
Worth watching
Minutes28 → 30 +2
Shots7 → 7 0
Fantasy pts25 → 26 +1
  • 23 minutes and 24 fantasy points a game in the 2 games he played with all of them out
  • came in for 29% of the times one of them left a game
  • +4 minutes in 6 games without Payton alone since last season
  • +3 minutes in 23 games without Moody alone since last season
Everyone else · usual → tonight
How this works, and how often it's rightShow

We start from each teammate's recent minutes, shots and fantasy points since last season, then hand out the minutes the missing players have been playing: mostly to whoever came in when each of them left a game, and to whoever played more when each one sat on his own, with a small nudge toward the same position. Minutes a player already lost while someone was out are not counted twice. Shots move with how often each teammate finished plays when none of the missing players were on the floor. When the exact group has sat together 4 or more times, those games count too.

We checked it on 1,183 games in 2025-26 where a team had two or more rotation players out, using only games played before each one. Our minutes were off by 5.2 a player on average in games from February on, against 6.06 using season averages and 9.41 adding up each missing player's own "who gains" numbers. Fantasy points: off by 8.12, against 8.59 and 12.48. Our biggest predicted minutes gainer was one of the night's two biggest gainers 52% of the time (adding up single-player numbers: 37%).

Likely means 6 or more minutes over his usual: 79% of those players really did play at least 2 more. Lean (3.5 to 6 more): 65%. Worth watching (2 to 3.5 more): 52%. Blowouts, foul trouble and coaches' whims make any one night noisy.

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New to the team, no games with them in our sample yet: Tyler Burton, Alex Toohey, Dalen Terry. They will take some of these minutes, and we can't say how many until they play.

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