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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.

Toronto Raptors vs New Orleans Pelicans
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
TOR TOR
Model Spread
NOP +2.8
Win Prob.
61.2%
If TOR visited NOP today, our model would lean Toronto Raptors with a 61.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of -5.3 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
-4.1
Net Rating
-9.4
109.6
Offensive Rating
109.7
113.6
Defensive Rating
119.1
100.6
Pace
99.8
TOR (Away) NOP (Home)

Recent Form

TOR TOR 49-40 L1 Avg margin last 5: +2.2
L CLE
W CLE
L CLE
W CLE
W CLE
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

5
NOP wins
5
TOR wins
2026-03-27 TOR 106 @ NOP 119 NOP W
2026-03-11 TOR 111 @ NOP 122 NOP W
2025-01-27 TOR 104 @ NOP 113 NOP W
2024-11-27 TOR 119 @ NOP 93 TOR W
2024-03-05 TOR 139 @ NOP 98 TOR 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 61.2% 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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