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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.

Cleveland Cavaliers vs Charlotte Hornets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
CHA -4.3
Win Prob.
67.4%
If CLE visited CHA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 67.4% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -18.3 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
9.2
Net Rating
-9.1
121.0
Offensive Rating
106.7
111.8
Defensive Rating
115.7
100.3
Pace
98.2
CLE (Away) CHA (Home)

Recent Form

CLE CLE 60-40 L4 Avg margin last 5: -9.2
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
W DET
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

3
CHA wins
7
CLE wins
2026-02-20 CLE 118 @ CHA 113 CLE W
2026-01-21 CLE 94 @ CHA 87 CLE W
2025-12-22 CLE 132 @ CHA 139 CHA W
2025-12-14 CLE 119 @ CHA 111 CLE W
2025-03-07 CLE 118 @ CHA 117 CLE 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 67.4% 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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