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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 Los Angeles Clippers
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
LAC LAC
Model Spread
LAC -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If NOP visited LAC today, our model would lean Los Angeles Clippers with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +14.3 points for LAC 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
4.9
109.7
Offensive Rating
114.3
119.1
Defensive Rating
109.4
99.8
Pace
98.2
NOP (Away) LAC (Home)

Recent Form

NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC
LAC LAC 42-40 W1 Avg margin last 5: +2.0
W GSW
L POR
L OKC
W DAL
W SAC

Head-to-Head History

5
LAC wins
5
NOP wins
2026-03-19 NOP 99 @ LAC 105 LAC W
2026-03-18 NOP 109 @ LAC 124 LAC W
2026-03-01 NOP 117 @ LAC 137 LAC W
2025-10-31 NOP 124 @ LAC 126 LAC W
2025-04-02 NOP 98 @ LAC 114 LAC 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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