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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.

Indiana Pacers vs Chicago Bulls
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHI CHI
Model Spread
CHI -2.0
Win Prob.
58.2%
If IND visited CHI today, our model would lean Chicago Bulls with a 58.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -3.7 points for CHI 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
-1.6
115.4
Offensive Rating
113.2
113.3
Defensive Rating
114.8
100.8
Pace
103.6
IND (Away) CHI (Home)

Recent Form

IND IND 19-63 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L DET
L PHI
W BKN
L MIN
L CLE
CHI CHI 31-51 L2 Avg margin last 5: -2.6
L DAL
L ORL
W WAS
W WAS
L PHX

Head-to-Head History

3
CHI wins
7
IND wins
2026-04-01 IND 145 @ CHI 126 IND W
2026-01-28 IND 110 @ CHI 113 CHI W
2025-12-05 IND 120 @ CHI 105 IND W
2025-11-29 IND 101 @ CHI 103 CHI W
2025-03-10 IND 103 @ CHI 121 CHI 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 58.2% 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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