Eddie Erdelatz

Head coach, 1950–1958

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1950–1958NavyHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak76Career71

1950–1958 · 9 seasonsRecord 50-26National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 76: 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 76: best five-season stretch, 1954–1958 at Navy (35-9, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 71 (#173 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (50-26), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Navy) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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
1958	Navy	6-3	#39	+0.27 SD
1957	Navy	9-1-1	#5	+1.55 SD
1956	Navy	6-1-2	#42	+0.31 SD
1955	Navy	6-2-1	#25	+0.69 SD
1954	Navy	8-2	#7	+1.38 SD
1953	Navy	4-3-2	#43	+0.18 SD
1952	Navy	6-2-1	#19	+0.79 SD
1951	Navy	2-6-1	#49	+0.14 SD
1950	Navy	3-6	#55	+0.03 SD

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