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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.

Houston Rockets vs Indiana Pacers
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
HOU HOU
Model Spread
IND +7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If HOU visited IND today, our model would lean Houston Rockets with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -2.5 points for IND 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
4.6
Net Rating
2.1
114.9
Offensive Rating
115.4
110.3
Defensive Rating
113.3
99.0
Pace
100.8
HOU (Away) IND (Home)

Recent Form

HOU HOU 54-34 L1 Avg margin last 5: -1.2
L LAL
W LAL
W LAL
L LAL
L LAL
IND IND 19-63 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L DET
L PHI
W BKN
L MIN
L CLE

Head-to-Head History

7
IND wins
3
HOU wins
2026-02-02 HOU 118 @ IND 114 HOU W
2025-12-29 HOU 119 @ IND 126 IND W
2025-03-04 HOU 102 @ IND 115 IND W
2024-11-20 HOU 113 @ IND 130 IND W
2024-02-06 HOU 129 @ IND 132 IND 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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