Howard Odell

Head coach, 1942–1952

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

1948–1952WashingtonHead Coach

1942–1947YaleHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak70Career66

1942–1952 · 8 seasonsRecord 41-32National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 70: 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 70: best five-season stretch, 1942–1947 at Yale (18-7), taking over a losing program.
Career 66 (#252 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (41-32), 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
1952	Washington	7-3	#24	+0.60 SD
1951	Washington	3-6-1	#47	+0.22 SD
1950	Washington	8-2	#19	+0.95 SD
1949	Washington	3-7	#51	+0.02 SD
1948	Washington	2-7-1	#67	-0.42 SD
1947	Yale	6-3	#58	-0.28 SD
1946	Yale	7-1-1	#21	+0.82 SD
1945	Yale	6-3	#46 (wartime)	-0.44 SD
1944	Yale	7-0-1	#29 (wartime)	+0.08 SD
1943	Yale	4-5	#45 (wartime)	-0.85 SD
1942	Yale	5-3	#53	-0.06 SD

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