The Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) is widely used to rank the quality of deceased donor kidneys and is integrated into the US kidney allograft allocation system. However, the KDRI has modest predictive accuracy for allograft survival, and recent revisions to the KDRI, which removed donor race and hepatitis C virus, also revealed model calibration problems. This study aimed to evaluate novel approaches for predicting post-transplant allograft survival.