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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 Portland Trail Blazers
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
POR POR
Model Spread
POR -7.5
Win Prob.
80.0%
If IND visited POR today, our model would lean Portland Trail Blazers with a 80.0% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -4.8 points for POR 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
-2.7
115.4
Offensive Rating
111.0
113.3
Defensive Rating
113.7
100.8
Pace
99.5
IND (Away) POR (Home)

Recent Form

IND IND 19-63 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L DET
L PHI
W BKN
L MIN
L CLE
POR POR 43-44 L3 Avg margin last 5: -12.4
L SAS
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L SAS

Head-to-Head History

7
POR wins
3
IND wins
2026-03-18 IND 127 @ POR 119 IND W
2026-03-08 IND 111 @ POR 131 POR W
2025-02-04 IND 89 @ POR 112 POR W
2024-11-27 IND 114 @ POR 121 POR W
2024-01-19 IND 115 @ POR 118 POR 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 80.0% 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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