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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.

Boston Celtics vs Dallas Mavericks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
BOS BOS
Model Spread
DAL +8.3
Win Prob.
83.3%
If BOS visited DAL today, our model would lean Boston Celtics with a 83.3% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -10.7 points for DAL 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
-1.3
119.5
Offensive Rating
113.7
110.1
Defensive Rating
115.0
96.6
Pace
100.2
BOS (Away) DAL (Home)

Recent Form

BOS BOS 59-30 L3 Avg margin last 5: +0.4
L PHI
L PHI
L PHI
W PHI
W PHI
DAL DAL 26-56 W1 Avg margin last 5: -2.0
W CHI
L SAS
L PHX
L LAC
W LAL

Head-to-Head History

2
DAL wins
8
BOS wins
2026-03-06 BOS 100 @ DAL 120 DAL W
2026-02-03 BOS 110 @ DAL 100 BOS W
2025-02-06 BOS 127 @ DAL 120 BOS W
2025-01-25 BOS 122 @ DAL 107 BOS W
2024-06-17 BOS 88 @ DAL 106 DAL 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 83.3% 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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