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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.

Portland Trail Blazers vs Charlotte Hornets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
CHA -3.9
Win Prob.
65.4%
If POR visited CHA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 65.4% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -6.4 points for CHA 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
-2.7
Net Rating
-9.1
111.0
Offensive Rating
106.7
113.7
Defensive Rating
115.7
99.5
Pace
98.2
POR (Away) CHA (Home)

Recent Form

POR POR 43-44 L3 Avg margin last 5: -12.4
L SAS
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L SAS
CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND

Head-to-Head History

4
CHA wins
6
POR wins
2026-03-10 POR 103 @ CHA 101 POR W
2026-02-28 POR 93 @ CHA 109 CHA W
2025-02-22 POR 88 @ CHA 141 CHA W
2025-01-24 POR 102 @ CHA 97 POR W
2024-04-03 POR 89 @ CHA 86 POR 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 65.4% 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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