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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.

Detroit Pistons vs Miami Heat
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DET DET
Model Spread
MIA +6.9
Win Prob.
77.8%
If DET visited MIA today, our model would lean Detroit Pistons with a 77.8% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -1.7 points for MIA 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
2.1
Net Rating
0.4
114.6
Offensive Rating
112.4
112.5
Defensive Rating
112.0
100.3
Pace
97.1
DET (Away) MIA (Home)

Recent Form

DET DET 67-29 L1 Avg margin last 5: -6.0
L CLE
W CLE
L CLE
L CLE
L CLE
MIA MIA 43-39 W2 Avg margin last 5: +5.0
W ATL
W WAS
L TOR
L TOR
W WAS

Head-to-Head History

6
MIA wins
4
DET wins
2026-03-08 DET 110 @ MIA 121 MIA W
2026-01-01 DET 118 @ MIA 112 DET W
2025-11-29 DET 138 @ MIA 135 DET W
2025-03-19 DET 116 @ MIA 113 DET W
2024-12-16 DET 124 @ MIA 125 MIA 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 77.8% 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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