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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.

Charlotte Hornets vs Dallas Mavericks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
DAL +5.8
Win Prob.
73.2%
If CHA visited DAL today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 73.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +7.8 points for DAL 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
-9.1
Net Rating
-1.3
106.7
Offensive Rating
113.7
115.7
Defensive Rating
115.0
98.2
Pace
100.2
CHA (Away) DAL (Home)

Recent Form

CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND
DAL DAL 26-56 W1 Avg margin last 5: -2.0
W CHI
L SAS
L PHX
L LAC
W LAL

Head-to-Head History

4
DAL wins
6
CHA wins
2026-03-03 CHA 90 @ DAL 117 DAL W
2026-01-29 CHA 123 @ DAL 121 CHA W
2025-02-27 CHA 96 @ DAL 103 DAL W
2025-01-20 CHA 105 @ DAL 110 DAL W
2024-04-09 CHA 130 @ DAL 104 CHA 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 73.2% 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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