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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 Minnesota Timberwolves
AI Prediction & Odds Analysis

If They Played Today

Model Pick
MIN MIN
Model Spread
MIN -7.9
Win Prob.
81.5%
If UTA visited MIN today, our model would lean Minnesota Timberwolves with a 81.5% win probability. That reflects a season-long net rating edge of +14.2 points for MIN 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
5.0
110.2
Offensive Rating
115.7
119.4
Defensive Rating
110.8
100.8
Pace
98.0
UTA (Away) MIN (Home)

Recent Form

UTA UTA 22-60 L1 Avg margin last 5: -13.2
L LAL
W MEM
L NOP
L OKC
L HOU
MIN MIN 55-39 L2 Avg margin last 5: -19.8
L SAS
L SAS
W SAS
L SAS
L SAS

Head-to-Head History

8
MIN wins
2
UTA wins
2026-03-18 UTA 111 @ MIN 147 MIN W
2026-01-20 UTA 122 @ MIN 127 MIN W
2025-11-10 UTA 120 @ MIN 113 UTA W
2025-11-07 UTA 97 @ MIN 137 MIN W
2025-04-13 UTA 105 @ MIN 116 MIN 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 81.5% 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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