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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.

Golden State Warriors vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NOP NOP
Model Spread
NOP -2.8
Win Prob.
61.4%
If GSW visited NOP today, our model would lean New Orleans Pelicans with a 61.4% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -12.6 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
3.2
Net Rating
-9.4
114.2
Offensive Rating
109.7
111.0
Defensive Rating
119.1
99.4
Pace
99.8
GSW (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

GSW GSW 37-45 L3 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L LAC
L SAC
L LAL
W SAC
L HOU
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

3
NOP wins
7
GSW wins
2026-02-24 GSW 109 @ NOP 113 NOP W
2025-11-29 GSW 96 @ NOP 104 NOP W
2025-11-16 GSW 124 @ NOP 106 GSW W
2025-03-28 GSW 111 @ NOP 95 GSW W
2024-11-22 GSW 112 @ NOP 108 GSW 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 61.4% 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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