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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.

Detroit Pistons vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DET DET
Model Spread
NOP +3.3
Win Prob.
63.3%
If DET visited NOP today, our model would lean Detroit Pistons with a 63.3% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -11.5 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
2.1
Net Rating
-9.4
114.6
Offensive Rating
109.7
112.5
Defensive Rating
119.1
100.3
Pace
99.8
DET (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

DET DET 67-29 L1 Avg margin last 5: -6.0
L CLE
W CLE
L CLE
L CLE
L CLE
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

6
NOP wins
4
DET wins
2026-03-26 DET 108 @ NOP 129 NOP W
2026-01-21 DET 112 @ NOP 104 DET W
2025-03-23 DET 130 @ NOP 136 NOP W
2025-03-17 DET 127 @ NOP 81 DET W
2024-03-24 DET 114 @ NOP 101 DET 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 63.3% 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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