Dan Simrell

Head coach, 1982–1989

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

1982–1989ToledoHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak50Career51

1982–1989 · 8 seasonsRecord 49-38National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 50: 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 50: best five-season stretch, 1982–1984 at Toledo (23-10), taking over a losing program.
Career 51 (#464 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (49-38), 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
1989	Toledo	6-5	#93	-1.25 SD
1988	Toledo	6-5	#89	-1.09 SD
1987	Toledo	3-7-1	#92	-1.18 SD
1986	Toledo	7-4	#87	-1.05 SD
1985	Toledo	4-7	#92	-1.32 SD
1984	Toledo	8-3-1	#86	-1.00 SD
1983	Toledo	9-2	#73	-0.46 SD
1982	Toledo	6-5	#91	-1.08 SD

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