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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 Indiana Pacers
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
IND +7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If CHA visited IND today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +11.2 points for IND 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
2.1
106.7
Offensive Rating
115.4
115.7
Defensive Rating
113.3
98.2
Pace
100.8
CHA (Away) IND (Home)

Recent Form

CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND
IND IND 19-63 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L DET
L PHI
W BKN
L MIN
L CLE

Head-to-Head History

5
IND wins
5
CHA wins
2026-04-03 CHA 108 @ IND 129 IND W
2026-02-26 CHA 133 @ IND 109 CHA W
2026-01-08 CHA 114 @ IND 112 CHA W
2025-11-19 CHA 118 @ IND 127 IND W
2025-04-02 CHA 105 @ IND 119 IND 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 81.5% 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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