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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 Golden State Warriors
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
GSW GSW
Model Spread
GSW -3.5
Win Prob.
63.8%
If NOP visited GSW today, our model would lean Golden State Warriors with a 63.8% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +12.6 points for GSW 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
3.2
109.7
Offensive Rating
114.2
119.1
Defensive Rating
111.0
99.8
Pace
99.4
NOP (Away) GSW (Home)

Recent Form

NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC
GSW GSW 37-45 L3 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L LAC
L SAC
L LAL
W SAC
L HOU

Head-to-Head History

7
GSW wins
3
NOP wins
2026-02-24 NOP 109 @ GSW 113 GSW W
2025-11-29 NOP 96 @ GSW 104 GSW W
2025-11-16 NOP 124 @ GSW 106 NOP W
2025-03-28 NOP 111 @ GSW 95 NOP W
2024-11-22 NOP 112 @ GSW 108 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 63.8% 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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