Putting Up Numbers· college football

Miami (FL)’s points of margin with Romanas Frederique Jr. and without Romanas Frederique Jr.

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Miami (FL) was 3.9 points over with Romanas Frederique Jr. and 1.5 points over without Romanas Frederique Jr. over its last 25 games, 10 games against 13. The plain averages are 17.2 and 21.9, a difference of 4.7. Expected was 5.9 points lower with Romanas Frederique Jr. than without Romanas Frederique Jr..

Romanas Frederique Jr., defender: 11 of those 25 games.

points of margin a game over expected

A +2.4 difference in points of margin over expected with Romanas Frederique Jr. vs without Romanas Frederique Jr. is about what you’d expect.

A −4.7 difference in points of margin with Romanas Frederique Jr. vs without Romanas Frederique Jr. is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Romanas Frederique Jr.without Romanas Frederique Jr.
Miami (FL)’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Romanas Frederique Jr. or without Romanas Frederique Jr.
SideDateGameResultpoints of marginExpected
Dec 28, 2024vsIowa State (neutral)L-15.0
Aug 31, 2025vsNotre DameW3-0.1
Sep 6, 2025vsBBethune-CookmanW42—
Sep 13, 2025vsSouth FloridaW3711.5
Sep 20, 2025vsFloridaW1921.2
Oct 4, 2025@Florida StateW612.3
Oct 17, 2025vsLouisvilleL-320.3
Oct 25, 2025vsStanfordW3529.1
Nov 1, 2025@SMUL-611.8
Nov 8, 2025vsSyracuseW2838.5
Nov 15, 2025vsNC StateW3417.5
Nov 22, 2025@Virginia TechW1725.2
Nov 29, 2025@PittsburghW319.6
Dec 20, 2025@Texas A&MW73.1
Dec 31, 2025vsOhio State (neutral)W10-6.6
Jan 8, 2026vsOle Miss (neutral)W46.0
Jan 19, 2026vsIndiana (neutral)L-6-12.0
Sep 4, 2026@StanfordW3929.3
Sep 10, 2026vsFlorida A&MW70—
Sep 18, 2026@Wake ForestW130.8
Sep 26, 2026vsCentral MichiganW4935.3
Oct 3, 2026@ClemsonW2811.9
Oct 17, 2026vsFlorida StateW824.6
Oct 24, 2026vsPittsburghW2917.9
Oct 31, 2026@North CarolinaW313.5

Method

Read against .

  • 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.