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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 San Antonio Spurs
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
SAS SAS
Model Spread
SAS -6.2
Win Prob.
74.7%
If DET visited SAS today, our model would lean San Antonio Spurs with a 74.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -4.9 points for SAS 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
-2.8
114.6
Offensive Rating
113.5
112.5
Defensive Rating
116.3
100.3
Pace
100.1
DET (Away) SAS (Home)

Recent Form

DET DET 67-29 L1 Avg margin last 5: -6.0
L CLE
W CLE
L CLE
L CLE
L CLE
SAS SAS 75-26 W3 Avg margin last 5: +10.2
W OKC
W OKC
W OKC
L OKC
W OKC

Head-to-Head History

6
SAS wins
4
DET wins
2026-03-05 DET 106 @ SAS 121 SAS W
2026-02-23 DET 114 @ SAS 103 DET W
2025-03-25 DET 96 @ SAS 122 SAS W
2025-02-21 DET 125 @ SAS 110 DET W
2024-04-14 DET 95 @ SAS 123 SAS 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 74.7% 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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