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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.

Indiana Pacers vs Charlotte Hornets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
CHA -7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If IND visited CHA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -11.2 points for CHA 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
-9.1
115.4
Offensive Rating
106.7
113.3
Defensive Rating
115.7
100.8
Pace
98.2
IND (Away) CHA (Home)

Recent Form

IND IND 19-63 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L DET
L PHI
W BKN
L MIN
L CLE
CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND

Head-to-Head History

5
CHA wins
5
IND wins
2026-04-03 IND 108 @ CHA 129 CHA W
2026-02-26 IND 133 @ CHA 109 IND W
2026-01-08 IND 114 @ CHA 112 IND W
2025-11-19 IND 118 @ CHA 127 CHA W
2025-04-02 IND 105 @ CHA 119 CHA 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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