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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.

Brooklyn Nets vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NOP NOP
Model Spread
NOP -6.2
Win Prob.
74.7%
If BKN visited NOP today, our model would lean New Orleans Pelicans with a 74.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -2.1 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
-7.3
Net Rating
-9.4
108.1
Offensive Rating
109.7
115.4
Defensive Rating
119.1
96.7
Pace
99.8
BKN (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

BKN BKN 20-62 L3 Avg margin last 5: -13.8
L TOR
L MIL
L IND
W MIL
W WAS
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

4
NOP wins
6
BKN wins
2026-01-14 BKN 113 @ NOP 116 NOP W
2025-12-06 BKN 101 @ NOP 119 NOP W
2025-04-08 BKN 114 @ NOP 119 NOP W
2024-11-11 BKN 107 @ NOP 105 BKN W
2024-03-19 BKN 104 @ NOP 91 BKN 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 74.7% 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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