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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.

San Antonio Spurs vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
SAS SAS
Model Spread
NOP +6.9
Win Prob.
77.8%
If SAS visited NOP today, our model would lean San Antonio Spurs with a 77.8% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -6.6 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
-2.8
Net Rating
-9.4
113.5
Offensive Rating
109.7
116.3
Defensive Rating
119.1
100.1
Pace
99.8
SAS (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

SAS SAS 75-26 W3 Avg margin last 5: +10.2
W OKC
W OKC
W OKC
L OKC
W OKC
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
SAS wins
2026-01-25 SAS 104 @ NOP 95 SAS W
2025-12-08 SAS 135 @ NOP 132 SAS W
2025-11-08 SAS 119 @ NOP 126 NOP W
2025-10-24 SAS 120 @ NOP 116 SAS W
2025-03-15 SAS 115 @ NOP 119 NOP 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 77.8% 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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