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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.

Oklahoma City Thunder vs Houston Rockets
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
HOU HOU
Model Spread
HOU -2.0
Win Prob.
58.2%
If OKC visited HOU today, our model would lean Houston Rockets with a 58.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -8.1 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
12.7
Net Rating
4.6
119.2
Offensive Rating
114.9
106.6
Defensive Rating
110.3
100.9
Pace
99.0
OKC (Away) HOU (Home)

Recent Form

OKC OKC 75-23 L3 Avg margin last 5: -10.2
L SAS
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L SAS
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

4
HOU wins
6
OKC wins
2026-02-07 OKC 112 @ HOU 106 OKC W
2026-01-15 OKC 111 @ HOU 91 OKC W
2025-10-21 OKC 124 @ HOU 125 HOU W
2025-04-04 OKC 111 @ HOU 125 HOU W
2025-03-03 OKC 128 @ HOU 137 HOU 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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