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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.

Miami Heat vs New York Knicks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NYK NYK
Model Spread
NYK -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If MIA visited NYK today, our model would lean New York Knicks with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +3.6 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
0.4
Net Rating
4.0
112.4
Offensive Rating
117.3
112.0
Defensive Rating
113.3
97.1
Pace
97.6
MIA (Away) NYK (Home)

Recent Form

MIA MIA 43-39 W2 Avg margin last 5: +5.0
W ATL
W WAS
L TOR
L TOR
W WAS
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

7
NYK wins
3
MIA wins
2025-12-21 MIA 125 @ NYK 132 NYK W
2025-11-17 MIA 113 @ NYK 115 NYK W
2025-11-14 MIA 132 @ NYK 140 NYK W
2025-10-26 MIA 107 @ NYK 115 NYK W
2025-03-17 MIA 95 @ NYK 116 NYK 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 89.7% 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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