As a MIT-trained data analyst and jazz bassist raised in a Catholic Irish-American household, I didn't expect to find myself in the middle of Fanatics Fest—surrounded by 100 fans waiting to play chess against my NBA prediction model. But that’s exactly what happened. This isn’t luck; it’s logic disguised as leisure. I used real-time shot charts and player movement algorithms to predict their moves before they even made them. The court became my latest dataset.