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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 Houston Rockets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
HOU HOU
Model Spread
HOU -7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If GSW visited HOU today, our model would lean Houston Rockets with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +1.4 points for HOU 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
4.6
114.2
Offensive Rating
114.9
111.0
Defensive Rating
110.3
99.4
Pace
99.0
GSW (Away) HOU (Home)

Recent Form

GSW GSW 37-45 L3 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L LAC
L SAC
L LAL
W SAC
L HOU
HOU HOU 54-34 L1 Avg margin last 5: -1.2
L LAL
W LAL
W LAL
L LAL
L LAL

Head-to-Head History

5
HOU wins
5
GSW wins
2026-04-05 GSW 117 @ HOU 116 GSW W
2026-03-05 GSW 115 @ HOU 113 GSW W
2025-11-26 GSW 104 @ HOU 100 GSW W
2025-05-04 GSW 103 @ HOU 89 GSW W
2025-05-02 GSW 115 @ HOU 107 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 81.5% 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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