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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.

Utah Jazz vs Dallas Mavericks
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
DAL DAL
Model Spread
DAL -3.8
Win Prob.
65.2%
If UTA visited DAL today, our model would lean Dallas Mavericks with a 65.2% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +7.9 points for DAL 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
-9.2
Net Rating
-1.3
110.2
Offensive Rating
113.7
119.4
Defensive Rating
115.0
100.8
Pace
100.2
UTA (Away) DAL (Home)

Recent Form

UTA UTA 22-60 L1 Avg margin last 5: -13.2
L LAL
W MEM
L NOP
L OKC
L HOU
DAL DAL 26-56 W1 Avg margin last 5: -2.0
W CHI
L SAS
L PHX
L LAC
W LAL

Head-to-Head History

6
DAL wins
4
UTA wins
2026-01-17 UTA 120 @ DAL 138 DAL W
2026-01-15 UTA 122 @ DAL 144 DAL W
2026-01-08 UTA 114 @ DAL 116 DAL W
2025-12-15 UTA 133 @ DAL 140 DAL W
2024-11-30 UTA 106 @ DAL 94 UTA 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 65.2% 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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