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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 New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
BOS BOS
Model Spread
NOP +3.3
Win Prob.
63.3%
If BOS visited NOP today, our model would lean Boston Celtics with a 63.3% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -18.8 points for NOP 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
-9.4
119.5
Offensive Rating
109.7
110.1
Defensive Rating
119.1
96.6
Pace
99.8
BOS (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

BOS BOS 59-30 L3 Avg margin last 5: +0.4
L PHI
L PHI
L PHI
W PHI
W PHI
NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC

Head-to-Head History

0
NOP wins
10
BOS wins
2026-04-10 BOS 118 @ NOP 144 NOP W
2025-10-27 BOS 122 @ NOP 90 BOS W
2025-01-31 BOS 118 @ NOP 116 BOS W
2025-01-12 BOS 119 @ NOP 120 NOP W
2024-03-30 BOS 104 @ NOP 92 BOS 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 63.3% 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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