The MRI
2026–27 · Week 3

UC Santa Barbara

Big West · 3–0

Power+5.8#103 of 365
Résumé+1.00#35 · wins above average
Movement+13up from #116 last week
Best winNevada (76–63)
Schedule faced-8.1 avg opponent
Schedule ahead-14.2 avg opponent
Returning production61% of last season's win shares · #20 of 364
Incoming production8.6 win shares from other schools' players
Recruiting class#150 in the country

How this rating is built

Power = w × (average margin counted + average opponent rating) + (1 − w) × preseason prior, where w = games ÷ (games + 8). After 3 games, w is 27%, so the preseason prior is 73% of this rating — mostly preseason, for now. Every game played shrinks that share.

PartValueWeightAdds
Margin counted+20.9 avg× 27%+5.7
Opponents faced-8.1 avg× 27%-2.2
Preseason prior+3.1× 73%+2.3
Power+5.8

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 vs San Francisco State non-D1 W 85–55 +41.9 -11.9 -0.1
2 vs Oakland W 90–67 +13.7 +9.3 +1.6
3 vs Nevada W 76–63 -2.0 +15.0 +2.0
Preseason prior (73% of the rating)+2.3
Power+5.8

Remaining schedule

WkOpponent ProjectedWin prob
3 vs UC Merced non-D1 +41.9 100%
4 at Pepperdine +9.1 80%
5 vs UNC Greensboro +17.5 94%
5 N Lehigh +14.5 91%

Season by season

Best finish: #57 in 2020–21. 22 seasons rated. The two columns' numbers are not comparable; the rank within each is. Season links open that year's game log.

25 1 400 2004–05 (MRI Classic): #236 of 326 (11-18)2005–06 (MRI Classic): #200 of 326 (15-14)2006–07 (MRI Classic): #128 of 326 (18-11)2007–08 (MRI Classic): #89 of 328 (23-9)2008–09 (MRI Classic): #163 of 330 (16-15)2009–10 (MRI Classic): #158 of 335 (20-10)2010–11 (MRI Classic): #141 of 346 (18-14)2011–12 (MRI Classic): #100 of 345 (21-10)2012–13 (MRI Classic): #252 of 347 (9-20)2013–14 (MRI Classic): #91 of 351 (21-9)2014–15 (MRI Classic): #115 of 351 (19-14)2015–16 (MRI Classic): #119 of 351 (19-14)2016–17 (MRI Classic): #326 of 351 (6-22)2017–18 (MRI Classic): #91 of 351 (23-9)2018–19 (MRI Classic): #110 of 353 (20-10)2019–20 (MRI Classic): #114 of 353 (19-10)2020–21 (MRI 2.0): #57 of 347 (22-5)2021–22 (MRI 2.0): #124 of 358 (17-11)2022–23 (MRI 2.0): #118 of 363 (27-8)2023–24 (MRI 2.0): #196 of 362 (16-15)2024–25 (MRI 2.0): #164 of 364 (21-13)2025–26 (MRI 2.0): #162 of 365 (18-14) MRI 2.0Classic 2004–05 2025–26

Finishing rank, best at the top, on an axis running to 400 — 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 18–14 #162 of 365 · -0.11 –
2024–25 21–13 #164 of 364 · -0.26 –
2023–24 16–15 #196 of 362 · -2.57 –
2022–23 27–8 #118 of 363 · 3.81 –
2021–22 17–11 #124 of 358 · 3.61 –
2020–21 22–5 #57 of 347 · 9.53 –
2019–20 19–10 – #114 of 353 · 57.60
2018–19 20–10 – #110 of 353 · 59.47
2017–18 23–9 – #91 of 351 · 79.26
2016–17 6–22 – #326 of 351 · -45.32
2015–16 19–14 – #119 of 351 · 62.58
2014–15 19–14 – #115 of 351 · 61.29
2013–14 21–9 – #91 of 351 · 73.37
2012–13 9–20 – #252 of 347 · -9.76
2011–12 21–10 – #100 of 345 · 71.29
2010–11 18–14 – #141 of 346 · 48.96
2009–10 20–10 – #158 of 335 · 39.43
2008–09 16–15 – #163 of 330 · 36.01
2007–08 23–9 – #89 of 328 · 73.01
2006–07 18–11 – #128 of 326 · 50.44
2005–06 15–14 – #200 of 326 · 20.98
2004–05 11–18 – #236 of 326 · 2.13