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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 Washington Wizards
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CLE CLE
Model Spread
WAS +12.5
Win Prob.
100.0%
If CLE visited WAS today, our model would lean Cleveland Cavaliers with a 100.0% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -21.4 points for WAS 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
-12.2
121.0
Offensive Rating
105.8
111.8
Defensive Rating
118.0
100.3
Pace
101.8
CLE (Away) WAS (Home)

Recent Form

CLE CLE 60-40 L4 Avg margin last 5: -9.2
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
L NYK
W DET
WAS WAS 17-65 L10 Avg margin last 5: -16.8
L CLE
L MIA
L CHI
L CHI
L BKN

Head-to-Head History

0
WAS wins
10
CLE wins
2026-04-12 CLE 117 @ WAS 130 WAS W
2026-02-11 CLE 113 @ WAS 138 WAS W
2025-12-12 CLE 130 @ WAS 126 CLE W
2025-11-07 CLE 148 @ WAS 115 CLE W
2025-02-07 CLE 134 @ WAS 124 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 100.0% 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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