The Most Important Games for the Ball State Cardinals are those conference games in the upcoming week whose outcome most changes the Cardinals final standings. The Importance Factor provides a relative importance between games. Ball State Cardinals fans can use this table to identify the most interesting conference games in the upcoming week of play.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
Game Winner |
Ball State Resultant Probabilities | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Season Finish | ||||||||||||||
| 1* Conference Championship Game Participant |
2* Conference Championship Game Participant |
3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||
| Ball State (3‑7) vs Bowling Green (6‑4) |
0 | Ball State Wins | X | X | X | X | <1% | 4% | 13% | 58% | 23% | 2% | ^ | ^ |
| Current Probabilities | X | X | X | X | <1% | 1% | 6% | 27% | 16% | 9% | 41% | ^ | ||
| Bowling Green Wins | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 13% | 13% | 11% | 62% | ^ | ||