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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 York Knicks vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
NYK NYK
Model Spread
NOP +12.5
Win Prob.
100.0%
If NYK visited NOP today, our model would lean New York Knicks with a 100.0% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -13.4 points for NOP 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
4.0
Net Rating
-9.4
117.3
Offensive Rating
109.7
113.3
Defensive Rating
119.1
97.6
Pace
99.8
NYK (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

NYK NYK 65-31 W11 Avg margin last 5: +21.4
W CLE
W CLE
W CLE
W CLE
W PHI
NOP NOP 26-56 L2 Avg margin last 5: -4.2
L MIN
L BOS
W UTA
L ORL
L SAC

Head-to-Head History

4
NOP wins
6
NYK wins
2026-03-24 NYK 116 @ NOP 121 NOP W
2025-12-29 NYK 130 @ NOP 125 NYK W
2024-12-21 NYK 104 @ NOP 93 NYK W
2024-12-01 NYK 85 @ NOP 118 NOP W
2024-02-27 NYK 115 @ NOP 92 NYK 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 100.0% 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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