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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.

Miami Heat vs Houston Rockets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
HOU HOU
Model Spread
HOU -3.5
Win Prob.
63.8%
If MIA visited HOU today, our model would lean Houston Rockets with a 63.8% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +4.2 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
0.4
Net Rating
4.6
112.4
Offensive Rating
114.9
112.0
Defensive Rating
110.3
97.1
Pace
99.0
MIA (Away) HOU (Home)

Recent Form

MIA MIA 43-39 W2 Avg margin last 5: +5.0
W ATL
W WAS
L TOR
L TOR
W WAS
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

2
HOU wins
8
MIA wins
2026-03-21 MIA 122 @ HOU 123 HOU W
2026-02-28 MIA 105 @ HOU 115 HOU W
2025-03-21 MIA 102 @ HOU 98 MIA W
2024-12-29 MIA 104 @ HOU 100 MIA W
2024-04-05 MIA 119 @ HOU 104 MIA 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 63.8% 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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