One of the weirdly accurate models in sports are the win totals predicted by Las Vegas each season. Vegas is the capital of sports betting, (and well, betting in general) so a decent amount of time goes into predicting how teams and players will do each upcoming season. Oddly enough, they haven’t been good at predicting how good or bad the Charlotte Hornets will be.
That said, Vegas predicts the Hornets will win 42.5 games this season. It would leave them 7th best in the East, matching them with the Cleveland Cavaliers.