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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 Oklahoma City Thunder
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
OKC OKC
Model Spread
OKC -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If NOP visited OKC today, our model would lean Oklahoma City Thunder with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +22.1 points for OKC 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
12.7
109.7
Offensive Rating
119.2
119.1
Defensive Rating
106.6
99.8
Pace
100.9
NOP (Away) OKC (Home)

Recent Form

NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC
OKC OKC 75-23 L3 Avg margin last 5: -10.2
L SAS
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L SAS

Head-to-Head History

10
OKC wins
0
NOP wins
2026-01-27 NOP 95 @ OKC 104 OKC W
2025-11-17 NOP 126 @ OKC 109 NOP W
2025-11-02 NOP 106 @ OKC 137 OKC W
2025-04-13 NOP 115 @ OKC 100 NOP W
2025-02-10 NOP 101 @ OKC 137 OKC 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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