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When it comes to college football coaches, especially assistant coaches, most CFB fans have little objective information or metrics by which to evaluate them. The same is true of sports journalists and athletic directors (search firms often put forth dubious metrics to rate coaches). Head coaches can generally be measured by their overall records and power ratings, but that excludes the impact of nine or ten other full-time staff members.

Despite the ever-spinning coaching carousel, and all the winter articles written about FBS coaching changes, the vast majority of people attached to the sport have little idea about how good any of these coaches really are.

To help fill this chasm of analytical coaching information, we are publishing first-of-its-kind, free FBS coach lookup tables that include a battery of objective metrics of coaching performance. These tables are drawn from all FBS coaches, games, and plays from the 2005 – 2022 seasons:

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wdt_ID Year Coach CoachID team Role Win Loss ExpPwr Power DiffPwr QBR QBP RBR RBP WRR WRP OLR OLP TER TEP DLR DLP LBR LBP DBR DBP KO PT PK KR PR KB CCH STDWIN
1 2005 NULL 0.0000 NULL NULL 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2 2016 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 Army DB 8 5 8 25 17 2.4 1.3 3.6 0.5
3 2017 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 Colorado DB 5 7 56 34 -21 -4.6 -2.7 -7.2 -0.9
4 2018 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 Colorado PD/DB 5 7 61 46 -14 -1.6 1.5 -0.7 -6.3 -7.0 -0.8
5 2019 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 Louisville DB 8 5 70 80 10 -0.6 -0.9 -1.5 -0.2
6 2020 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 Louisville DB 4 7 69 53 -16 -0.9 1.1 0.2 0.0
7 2021 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 West Virginia DC/DB 6 7 68 63 -5 0.5 0.6 0.6 -0.4 2.1 -5.4 -2.1 -0.3
8 2022 ShaDon Brown 1.0250 West Virginia DC/DB 5 7 67 64 -4 0.2 1.3 -1.5 -1.0 -2.5 -5.1 -8.5 -1.0
9 2005 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 Tulane DL 2 9 52 4 -49 -4.1 -2.7 -6.7 -0.7
10 2006 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 Tulane DL 4 8 47 11 -36 -0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0
11 2007 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UAB DL 2 10 20 5 -16 -7.2 -1.7 -8.8 -1.1
12 2008 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UAB DL 4 8 23 10 -13 1.4 -5.0 -3.6 -0.4
13 2009 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UAB DL 5 7 22 25 4 1.1 -3.2 -2.1 -0.3
14 2010 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UAB DL 4 8 15 20 5 0.2 1.0 1.3 0.2
15 2011 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UAB DL 3 9 15 7 -8 -3.9 -0.9 -4.8 -0.6
16 2012 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 Southern Miss DL 0 12 45 4 -41 -1.7 2.6 0.9 0.1
17 2013 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UCF DL 12 1 52 90 38 -2.9 -1.8 -4.7 -0.6
18 2014 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UCF DL 9 4 50 62 11 2.6 3.0 5.6 0.7
19 2015 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 UCF DL 0 12 40 4 -36 0.3 -1.8 -1.5 -0.2
20 2016 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 Georgia Southern DC 5 7 9 13 4 2.0 -1.0 3.4 1.7 0.3 -4.5 2.1 0.2
21 2017 Lorenzo Costantini 2.6495 Georgia Southern DC/DL 2 10 27 5 -22 -3.8 -1.5 -2.2 -1.0 -1.0 0.1 -9.4 -1.1
22 2013 Bryan Cook 4.9325 Georgia Tech QB/RB 7 6 67 72 6 -6.0 -2.5 7.3 -0.7 -1.8 -0.2
23 2014 Bryan Cook 4.9325 Georgia Tech QB/RB 11 3 65 94 28 0.5 3.0 9.4 2.1 14.6 2.0
24 2015 Bryan Cook 4.9325 Georgia Tech QB/RB 3 9 63 38 -25 -7.0 -3.7 2.0 -1.2 -9.8 -1.2
25 2016 Bryan Cook 4.9325 Georgia Tech QB/RB 9 4 60 81 21 -1.2 5.0 4.0 4.3 11.8 1.5
Coach CoachID
∑ = -4.4
μ = 44.63 μ = 37.92 μ = -6.75 μ = -2.7 μ = 0.4 μ = 4.5 μ = 0.9 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = -1.0 μ = -0.7 μ = 0.1 μ = 0.1 μ = -0.6 μ = -2.2 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = 0.0 μ = -1.6 μ = -0.2

To use the table, simply type in an FBS coach’s name in the Coach search box, or type in his unique CoachID in the CoachID box. (CoachIDs help avoid misspellings and duplicate coach names if you want to come back and repeat a search later.)

Each coach is rated across all units he shares responsibility for, such as QBR (quarterback rush), WRP (wide receiver pass), etc. Responsibility levels are determined by coaching roles, and ratings are measured as the average percentage increase or decrease in game-by-game win probabilities. The final column, standardized wins (StdWin), aggregates all these unit ratings into a single +/- net wins value for the season. This StdWin number estimates how many wins (or losses) the coach contributed that season, adjusted by recruiting level and strength of schedule. Theoretically, if all the coaches on a team had a StdWin = 0.0, then their expected record versus teams with equal talent and coaching would be 6-6 over 12 games, or a .500 record overall. Standardizing by recruiting and strength of schedule puts all coaches on a level playing field.

All metrics are conditional on the team’s 4-year composite recruiting baseline; i.e., a team’s expected power rating (ExpPwr) is compared to their actual power rating (Power) to compute differential power (DiffPwr). This allows the measurements to look beyond the record and get a true sense of how good the team really was. By constructing ratings in this way, all ratings are unbiased for a given recruiting level–otherwise, the system would be unfairly biased toward the big recruiting programs. Averages (μ) are given for each of the unit ratings columns. Note that these averages include empty cells (meaning the coach had no responsibility for that unit) as zeroes, so keep that in mind when considering those summary statistics. Career/total StdWin (∑) is given in the rightmost column.

 

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NOTES: Updated ratings formulas (based on additional data) may result in slight changes to historical ratings compared to the 2022 version. Blocking data is incomplete for the 2005 – 2006 seasons. This data may be incorporated at a later date. A few coaches, due to name change/correction in the CFB Coaches Database, had their CoachIDs reassigned.

 

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