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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 New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DEN DEN
Model Spread
NOP +7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If DEN visited NOP today, our model would lean Denver Nuggets with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -13.2 points for NOP 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
-9.4
118.9
Offensive Rating
109.7
115.1
Defensive Rating
119.1
100.7
Pace
99.8
DEN (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

DEN DEN 56-32 L1 Avg margin last 5: -7.6
L MIN
W MIN
L MIN
L MIN
L MIN
NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC

Head-to-Head History

2
NOP wins
8
DEN wins
2026-01-13 DEN 122 @ NOP 116 DEN W
2025-11-19 DEN 125 @ NOP 118 DEN W
2025-10-29 DEN 88 @ NOP 122 NOP W
2025-02-05 DEN 119 @ NOP 144 NOP W
2025-02-03 DEN 113 @ NOP 125 NOP 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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