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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.

New Orleans Pelicans vs Boston Celtics
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
BOS BOS
Model Spread
BOS -8.9
Win Prob.
85.7%
If NOP visited BOS today, our model would lean Boston Celtics with a 85.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +18.8 points for BOS 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
-9.4
Net Rating
9.4
109.7
Offensive Rating
119.5
119.1
Defensive Rating
110.1
99.8
Pace
96.6
NOP (Away) BOS (Home)

Recent Form

NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC
BOS BOS 59-30 L3 Avg margin last 5: +0.4
L PHI
L PHI
L PHI
W PHI
W PHI

Head-to-Head History

10
BOS wins
0
NOP wins
2026-04-10 NOP 118 @ BOS 144 BOS W
2025-10-27 NOP 122 @ BOS 90 NOP W
2025-01-31 NOP 118 @ BOS 116 NOP W
2025-01-12 NOP 119 @ BOS 120 BOS W
2024-03-30 NOP 104 @ BOS 92 NOP 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 85.7% 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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