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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.

Dallas Mavericks vs Utah Jazz
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
UTA UTA
Model Spread
UTA -2.0
Win Prob.
58.2%
If DAL visited UTA today, our model would lean Utah Jazz with a 58.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -7.9 points for UTA 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
-1.3
Net Rating
-9.2
113.7
Offensive Rating
110.2
115.0
Defensive Rating
119.4
100.2
Pace
100.8
DAL (Away) UTA (Home)

Recent Form

DAL DAL 26-56 W1 Avg margin last 5: -2.0
W CHI
L SAS
L PHX
L LAC
W LAL
UTA UTA 22-60 L1 Avg margin last 5: -13.2
L LAL
W MEM
L NOP
L OKC
L HOU

Head-to-Head History

4
UTA wins
6
DAL wins
2026-01-17 DAL 120 @ UTA 138 UTA W
2026-01-15 DAL 122 @ UTA 144 UTA W
2026-01-08 DAL 114 @ UTA 116 UTA W
2025-12-15 DAL 133 @ UTA 140 UTA W
2024-11-30 DAL 106 @ UTA 94 DAL 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 58.2% 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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