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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.

Golden State Warriors vs Charlotte Hornets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
CHA -9.9
Win Prob.
89.7%
If GSW visited CHA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 89.7% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -12.3 points for CHA 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
3.2
Net Rating
-9.1
114.2
Offensive Rating
106.7
111.0
Defensive Rating
115.7
99.4
Pace
98.2
GSW (Away) CHA (Home)

Recent Form

GSW GSW 37-45 L3 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L LAC
L SAC
L LAL
W SAC
L HOU
CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND

Head-to-Head History

2
CHA wins
8
GSW wins
2026-01-17 GSW 116 @ CHA 136 CHA W
2025-12-31 GSW 132 @ CHA 125 GSW W
2025-03-03 GSW 119 @ CHA 101 GSW W
2025-02-25 GSW 92 @ CHA 128 CHA W
2024-03-29 GSW 115 @ CHA 97 GSW 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 89.7% 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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