Miami (FL)’s points of margin with Mark Fletcher Jr. and without Mark Fletcher Jr.
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Miami (FL) was 1.9 points over with Mark Fletcher Jr. and 6.6 points over without Mark Fletcher Jr. over its last 25 games, 20 games against 3. The plain averages are 17.5 and 37.0, a difference of 19.5. All 9 away games were with Mark Fletcher Jr.. All 4 neutral-site games were with Mark Fletcher Jr.. All 9 ranked opponents were with Mark Fletcher Jr..
Mark Fletcher Jr., running back: 1,711 rushing yards, 322 carries and 25 receptions in 22 of those 25 games.
3 games without Mark Fletcher Jr. is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
points of margin a game over expected
A −4.6 difference in points of margin over expected with Mark Fletcher Jr. vs without Mark Fletcher Jr. is about what you’d expect.
A −19.5 difference in points of margin with Mark Fletcher Jr. vs without Mark Fletcher Jr. is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Mark Fletcher Jr. and it comes up 10 times in 100.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | points of margin | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2024 | vs Iowa State (neutral) | L | -1 | 5.0 | |
| Aug 31, 2025 | vs Notre Dame | W | 3 | -0.1 | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | vsBBethune-Cookman | W | 42 | — | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | vs South Florida | W | 37 | 11.5 | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | vs Florida | W | 19 | 21.2 | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | @ Florida State | W | 6 | 12.3 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | vs Louisville | L | -3 | 20.3 | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | vs Stanford | W | 35 | 29.1 | |
| Nov 1, 2025 | @ SMU | L | -6 | 11.8 | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | vs Syracuse | W | 28 | 38.5 | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | vs NC State | W | 34 | 17.5 | |
| Nov 22, 2025 | @ Virginia Tech | W | 17 | 25.2 | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | @ Pittsburgh | W | 31 | 9.6 | |
| Dec 20, 2025 | @ Texas A&M | W | 7 | 3.1 | |
| Dec 31, 2025 | vs Ohio State (neutral) | W | 10 | -6.6 | |
| Jan 8, 2026 | vs Ole Miss (neutral) | W | 4 | 6.0 | |
| Jan 19, 2026 | vs Indiana (neutral) | L | -6 | -12.0 | |
| Sep 4, 2026 | @Stanford | W | 39 | 29.3 | |
| Sep 10, 2026 | vs Florida A&M | W | 70 | — | |
| Sep 18, 2026 | @ Wake Forest | W | 13 | 0.8 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vs Central Michigan | W | 49 | 35.3 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ Clemson | W | 28 | 11.9 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vsFlorida State | W | 8 | 24.6 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | vsPittsburgh | W | 29 | 17.9 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | @ North Carolina | W | 3 | 13.5 |
Method
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 3.0 in 2024, plus 3.1 in 2025, plus 3.7 in 2026 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
- Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 85% in 2024, 87% in 2025, 79% in 2026 of the difference the model predicts.
- The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
- Bethune-Cookman, Florida A&M have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 15 of these 25 games; in the other 10 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.