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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 Washington Wizards
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DET DET
Model Spread
WAS +6.9
Win Prob.
77.8%
If DET visited WAS today, our model would lean Detroit Pistons with a 77.8% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -14.3 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
2.1
Net Rating
-12.2
114.6
Offensive Rating
105.8
112.5
Defensive Rating
118.0
100.3
Pace
101.8
DET (Away) WAS (Home)

Recent Form

DET DET 67-29 L1 Avg margin last 5: -6.0
L CLE
W CLE
L CLE
L CLE
L CLE
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

3
WAS wins
7
DET wins
2026-03-19 DET 117 @ WAS 95 DET W
2026-03-17 DET 130 @ WAS 117 DET W
2026-02-05 DET 126 @ WAS 117 DET W
2025-11-10 DET 135 @ WAS 137 WAS W
2025-03-13 DET 129 @ WAS 125 DET 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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