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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.

New Orleans Pelicans vs Charlotte Hornets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
CHA CHA
Model Spread
CHA -8.2
Win Prob.
82.8%
If NOP visited CHA today, our model would lean Charlotte Hornets with a 82.8% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +0.3 points for CHA 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
-9.4
Net Rating
-9.1
109.7
Offensive Rating
106.7
119.1
Defensive Rating
115.7
99.8
Pace
98.2
NOP (Away) CHA (Home)

Recent Form

NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC
CHA CHA 44-38 W1 Avg margin last 5: +4.0
W NYK
L DET
L BOS
W MIN
W IND

Head-to-Head History

4
CHA wins
6
NOP wins
2026-02-02 NOP 95 @ CHA 102 CHA W
2025-11-04 NOP 112 @ CHA 116 CHA W
2025-03-30 NOP 94 @ CHA 98 CHA W
2025-01-25 NOP 92 @ CHA 123 CHA W
2024-01-17 NOP 112 @ CHA 132 CHA 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 82.8% 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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