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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.

Denver Nuggets vs Chicago Bulls
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DEN DEN
Model Spread
CHI +7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If DEN visited CHI today, our model would lean Denver Nuggets with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -5.4 points for CHI 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
3.8
Net Rating
-1.6
118.9
Offensive Rating
113.2
115.1
Defensive Rating
114.8
100.7
Pace
103.6
DEN (Away) CHI (Home)

Recent Form

DEN DEN 56-32 L1 Avg margin last 5: -7.6
L MIN
W MIN
L MIN
L MIN
L MIN
CHI CHI 31-51 L2 Avg margin last 5: -2.6
L DAL
L ORL
W WAS
W WAS
L PHX

Head-to-Head History

6
CHI wins
4
DEN wins
2026-02-07 DEN 136 @ CHI 120 DEN W
2025-11-17 DEN 130 @ CHI 127 DEN W
2025-03-24 DEN 129 @ CHI 119 DEN W
2025-01-27 DEN 121 @ CHI 129 CHI W
2023-12-12 DEN 114 @ CHI 106 DEN 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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