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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 Washington Wizards
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
IND IND
Model Spread
WAS +2.8
Win Prob.
61.2%
If IND visited WAS today, our model would lean Indiana Pacers with a 61.2% 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
115.4
Offensive Rating
105.8
113.3
Defensive Rating
118.0
100.8
Pace
101.8
IND (Away) WAS (Home)

Recent Form

IND IND 19-63 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.6
L DET
L PHI
W BKN
L MIN
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

4
WAS wins
6
IND wins
2026-02-20 IND 118 @ WAS 131 WAS W
2026-02-19 IND 105 @ WAS 112 WAS W
2025-12-14 IND 108 @ WAS 89 IND W
2025-11-28 IND 86 @ WAS 119 WAS W
2025-04-08 IND 98 @ WAS 104 WAS 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 61.2% 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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