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Hypothetical Matchup

These teams aren't scheduled to play. The prediction below is "if they faced off today" based on current 2025โ€“26 season ratings.

Atlanta Hawks vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
ATL ATL
Model Spread
NOP +1.7
Win Prob.
56.6%
If ATL visited NOP today, our model would lean Atlanta Hawks with a 56.6% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -8.3 points for NOP at home (plus ELO, rest, and recent form factored in).

Hypothetical matchup โ€” these teams aren't scheduled to play. The model updates daily as ratings and ELO move.

Team Stats Comparison

2025โ€“26 Season
-1.1
Net Rating
-9.4
113.7
Offensive Rating
109.7
114.8
Defensive Rating
119.1
103.4
Pace
99.8
ATL (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

ATL ATL 48-40 L3 Avg margin last 5: -18.8
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
W NYK
W NYK
NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC

Head-to-Head History

3
NOP wins
7
ATL wins
2026-01-07 ATL 100 @ NOP 117 NOP W
2025-11-22 ATL 115 @ NOP 98 ATL W
2024-12-02 ATL 112 @ NOP 124 NOP W
2024-11-03 ATL 126 @ NOP 111 ATL W
2024-03-10 ATL 116 @ NOP 103 ATL W

How Often Has the Model Been Right?

Verified track record across every prediction we've made โ€” not specific to this matchup.

67.1%
All Games
7146 tracked
75.1%
High Conf.
>65% picks
80.0%
Last 50
recent games

The model is an isotonic-calibrated XGBoost classifier โ€” a 56.6% confidence above means "the model picked teams at this confidence level and was right about 75.1% of the time" historically.

See full track record with calibration & Brier score

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