Danny Hope

Head coach

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

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2009–2012PurdueHead Coach

As head coach

Rating54Peak54Career61

2009–2012 · 4 seasonsRecord 19-24National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 54: 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 54: best five-season stretch, 2009–2012 at Purdue (19-24), taking over an average program.

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
2012	Purdue	3-3	#72	-0.35 SD
2011	Purdue	7-6	#76	-0.29 SD
2010	Purdue	4-8	#86	-0.64 SD
2009	Purdue	5-7	#67	-0.08 SD

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