Charlie Bachman

Head coach, 1936–1946

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1944–1946Michigan StateHead Coach

1936–1942Michigan StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak69Career68

1936–1946 · 8 seasonsRecord 41-25National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 69: his whole career, recent seasons weighted most, measured as how far his teams stood above their era, crediting him with half of what each program already was when he arrived (about the share that, historically, follows a coach to his next job), fading as the program becomes his own.
Peak 69: best five-season stretch, 1936–1938 at Michigan State (20-6), taking over an average program.
Career 68 (#224 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (41-25), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.

Rating = who he is: his whole head-coaching career (since 1936), weighted toward recent years — how far his teams stood above their contemporaries, how much he lifted programs, his great seasons and titles. Form = the last two seasons. Career = the all-time ranking number.

Season	Team	Record	Season rank	vs contemporaries
1946	Michigan State	5-5	#48	-0.01 SD
1945	Michigan State	5-3-1	#30 (wartime)	+0.15 SD
1944	Michigan State	6-1	#22 (wartime)	+0.25 SD
1942	Michigan State	4-3-2	#51	-0.05 SD
1941	Michigan State	5-3-1	#35	+0.45 SD
1940	Michigan State	3-4-1	#24	+0.66 SD
1939	Michigan State	4-4-1	#48	+0.10 SD
1938	Michigan State	6-3	#34	+0.44 SD
1937	Michigan State	8-2	#31	+0.52 SD
1936	Michigan State	6-1-2	#19	+0.83 SD

Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).