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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 Miami Heat
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
MIA +2.8
Win Prob.
61.2%
If CHA visited MIA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 61.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +9.5 points for MIA 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
0.4
106.7
Offensive Rating
112.4
115.7
Defensive Rating
112.0
98.2
Pace
97.1
CHA (Away) MIA (Home)

Recent Form

CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND
MIA MIA 43-39 W2 Avg margin last 5: +5.0
W ATL
W WAS
L TOR
L TOR
W WAS

Head-to-Head History

8
MIA wins
2
CHA wins
2026-03-17 CHA 106 @ MIA 136 MIA W
2026-03-06 CHA 128 @ MIA 120 CHA W
2025-11-07 CHA 108 @ MIA 126 MIA W
2025-10-28 CHA 117 @ MIA 144 MIA W
2025-03-23 CHA 105 @ MIA 122 MIA 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 61.2% 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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