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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 Miami Heat
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
MIA MIA
Model Spread
MIA -6.2
Win Prob.
74.7%
If NOP visited MIA today, our model would lean Miami Heat with a 74.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +9.8 points for MIA 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
0.4
109.7
Offensive Rating
112.4
119.1
Defensive Rating
112.0
99.8
Pace
97.1
NOP (Away) MIA (Home)

Recent Form

NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC
MIA MIA 43-39 W2 Avg margin last 5: +5.0
W ATL
W WAS
L TOR
L TOR
W WAS

Head-to-Head History

9
MIA wins
1
NOP wins
2026-02-11 NOP 123 @ MIA 111 NOP W
2026-01-04 NOP 106 @ MIA 125 MIA W
2025-04-11 NOP 153 @ MIA 104 NOP W
2025-01-01 NOP 108 @ MIA 119 MIA W
2024-03-22 NOP 111 @ MIA 88 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 74.7% 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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