Fritz Crisler

Head coach, 1936–1947

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

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1938–1947MichiganHead Coach

1936–1937PrincetonHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak92Career78

1936–1947 · 9 seasonsRecord 56-16National titles 1Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 92: 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 92: best five-season stretch, 1940–1947 at Michigan (36-7, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over an average program.
Career 78 (#84 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (56-16), 1 national title, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Michigan).

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
1947	Michigan	10-0	#1	+2.36 SD
1946	Michigan	6-2-1	#3	+1.90 SD
1945	Michigan	7-3	#4 (wartime)	+1.79 SD
1944	Michigan	8-2	#6 (wartime)	+1.70 SD
1943	Michigan	8-1	#2 (wartime)	+1.96 SD
1942	Michigan	7-3	#10	+1.19 SD
1941	Michigan	6-1-1	#3	+1.41 SD
1940	Michigan	7-1	#1	+2.29 SD
1939	Michigan	6-2	#30	+0.52 SD
1938	Michigan	6-1-1	#10	+1.23 SD
1937	Princeton	4-4	#56	-0.09 SD
1936	Princeton	4-2-2	#37	+0.37 SD

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