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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.

Denver Nuggets vs Washington Wizards
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DEN DEN
Model Spread
WAS +3.3
Win Prob.
63.3%
If DEN visited WAS today, our model would lean Denver Nuggets with a 63.3% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -16.0 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
3.8
Net Rating
-12.2
118.9
Offensive Rating
105.8
115.1
Defensive Rating
118.0
100.7
Pace
101.8
DEN (Away) WAS (Home)

Recent Form

DEN DEN 56-32 L1 Avg margin last 5: -7.6
L MIN
W MIN
L MIN
L MIN
L MIN
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

2
WAS wins
8
DEN wins
2026-01-22 DEN 107 @ WAS 97 DEN W
2026-01-17 DEN 115 @ WAS 121 WAS W
2025-03-15 DEN 126 @ WAS 123 DEN W
2024-12-07 DEN 113 @ WAS 122 WAS W
2024-02-22 DEN 110 @ WAS 130 WAS 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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