The MRI
2026–27 · Week 3

Ohio

MAC · 2–0

Power-0.4#149 of 365
Résumé+0.59#66 · wins above average
Movement+2up from #151 last week
Best winSouth Alabama (86–77)
Schedule faced-8.0 avg opponent
Schedule ahead-1.0 avg opponent
Returning production52% of last season's win shares · #38 of 364
Incoming production6.7 win shares from other schools' players

How this rating is built

Power = w × (average margin counted + average opponent rating) + (1 − w) × preseason prior, where w = games ÷ (games + 8). After 2 games, w is 20%, so the preseason prior is 80% of this rating — mostly preseason, for now. Every game played shrinks that share.

PartValueWeightAdds
Margin counted+14.4 avg× 20%+2.9
Opponents faced-8.0 avg× 20%-1.6
Preseason prior-2.0× 80%-1.7
Power-0.4

This explains how the model reached the number. The opponent ratings come out of the same fitted model, so it is not independent proof that the rating is right.

Results

Expected is the margin the model's ratings imply for that matchup and site. Perf is how far the actual margin beat it — the result against expectation. Adds is a different question: how many points of Power the game contributes, counting its margin and the strength of the opponent together. A game can beat expectation and still add little, or the reverse. Adds, plus the preseason prior, sum to Power (figures are rounded so the column adds up). Hover an Adds figure for its arithmetic.

WkOpponentResult ExpectedPerfAdds
2 at South Alabama W 86–77 +1.3 +7.7 +1.8
2 vs North Carolina A&T W 80–70 +14.0 -4.0 -0.5
Preseason prior (80% of the rating)-1.7
Power-0.4

Remaining schedule

WkOpponent ProjectedWin prob
3 at Purdue -23.5 2%
4 vs Morehead State +15.1 92%
5 N New Mexico State +2.9 60%
5 N Rice +7.3 75%
6 vs Toledo +2.4 59%
6 at Central Michigan +2.5 59%
8 at Ball State +6.2 71%
8 vs Buffalo +9.0 79%

Season by season

Best finish: #38 in 2011–12. 22 seasons rated. The two columns' numbers are not comparable; the rank within each is. Season links open that year's game log.

25 1 300 2004–05 (MRI Classic): #90 of 326 (21-11)2005–06 (MRI Classic): #96 of 326 (19-11)2006–07 (MRI Classic): #111 of 326 (19-13)2007–08 (MRI Classic): #88 of 328 (20-13)2008–09 (MRI Classic): #192 of 330 (15-17)2009–10 (MRI Classic): #68 of 335 (22-15)2010–11 (MRI Classic): #123 of 346 (19-16)2011–12 (MRI Classic): #38 of 345 (29-8)2012–13 (MRI Classic): #60 of 347 (24-9)2013–14 (MRI Classic): #102 of 351 (25-12)2014–15 (MRI Classic): #278 of 351 (10-20)2015–16 (MRI Classic): #101 of 351 (23-12)2016–17 (MRI Classic): #74 of 351 (20-11)2017–18 (MRI Classic): #209 of 351 (14-16)2018–19 (MRI Classic): #205 of 353 (13-17)2019–20 (MRI Classic): #160 of 353 (15-15)2020–21 (MRI 2.0): #89 of 347 (17-8)2021–22 (MRI 2.0): #101 of 358 (25-10)2022–23 (MRI 2.0): #123 of 363 (19-14)2023–24 (MRI 2.0): #135 of 362 (20-13)2024–25 (MRI 2.0): #165 of 364 (16-16)2025–26 (MRI 2.0): #214 of 365 (15-17) MRI 2.0Classic 2004–05 2025–26

Finishing rank, best at the top, on an axis running to 300 — this team's own range, not the size of the field. Two lines where both ratings cover a season - MRI 2.0 in red, Classic in grey. Hover a point for the season.

SeasonRec MRI 2.0MRI Classic
2025–26 15–17 #214 of 365 · -3.92 –
2024–25 16–16 #165 of 364 · -0.28 –
2023–24 20–13 #135 of 362 · 2.71 –
2022–23 19–14 #123 of 363 · 3.28 –
2021–22 25–10 #101 of 358 · 5.20 –
2020–21 17–8 #89 of 347 · 7.08 –
2019–20 15–15 – #160 of 353 · 37.58
2018–19 13–17 – #205 of 353 · 15.05
2017–18 14–16 – #209 of 351 · 22.30
2016–17 20–11 – #74 of 351 · 83.47
2015–16 23–12 – #101 of 351 · 72.13
2014–15 10–20 – #278 of 351 · -10.02
2013–14 25–12 – #102 of 351 · 68.05
2012–13 24–9 – #60 of 347 · 94.65
2011–12 29–8 – #38 of 345 · 112.88
2010–11 19–16 – #123 of 346 · 58.16
2009–10 22–15 – #68 of 335 · 91.81
2008–09 15–17 – #192 of 330 · 24.04
2007–08 20–13 – #88 of 328 · 73.86
2006–07 19–13 – #111 of 326 · 59.52
2005–06 19–11 – #96 of 326 · 66.27
2004–05 21–11 – #90 of 326 · 69.40