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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 York Knicks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NYK NYK
Model Spread
NYK -6.2
Win Prob.
74.7%
If DET visited NYK today, our model would lean New York Knicks with a 74.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +1.9 points for NYK 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
4.0
114.6
Offensive Rating
117.3
112.5
Defensive Rating
113.3
100.3
Pace
97.6
DET (Away) NYK (Home)

Recent Form

DET DET 67-29 L1 Avg margin last 5: -6.0
L CLE
W CLE
L CLE
L CLE
L CLE
NYK NYK 65-31 W11 Avg margin last 5: +21.4
W CLE
W CLE
W CLE
W CLE
W PHI

Head-to-Head History

4
NYK wins
6
DET wins
2026-02-19 DET 126 @ NYK 111 DET W
2026-02-06 DET 80 @ NYK 118 NYK W
2026-01-05 DET 90 @ NYK 121 NYK W
2025-05-01 DET 116 @ NYK 113 DET W
2025-04-29 DET 106 @ NYK 103 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 74.7% 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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