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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.

Sacramento Kings vs Charlotte Hornets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
CHA -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If SAC visited CHA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -9.7 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
0.6
Net Rating
-9.1
115.9
Offensive Rating
106.7
115.3
Defensive Rating
115.7
98.9
Pace
98.2
SAC (Away) CHA (Home)

Recent Form

SAC SAC 22-60 L1 Avg margin last 5: -7.2
L POR
W GSW
L GSW
L LAC
W NOP
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

5
CHA wins
5
SAC wins
2026-03-24 SAC 90 @ CHA 134 CHA W
2026-03-11 SAC 117 @ CHA 109 SAC W
2025-04-04 SAC 125 @ CHA 102 SAC W
2025-02-24 SAC 88 @ CHA 130 CHA W
2024-01-10 SAC 123 @ CHA 98 SAC 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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