Jim Stanley

Head coach, 1973–1978

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

1973–1978Oklahoma StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak74Career70

1973–1978 · 6 seasonsRecord 35-31National 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 74: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 1973–1976 at Oklahoma State (28-16), taking over an average program.
All of it at one program (Oklahoma State) — 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
1978	Oklahoma State	3-8	#56	+0.09 SD
1977	Oklahoma State	4-7	#57	+0.10 SD
1976	Oklahoma State	9-3	#16	+1.31 SD
1975	Oklahoma State	7-4	#13	+1.29 SD
1974	Oklahoma State	7-5	#17	+1.04 SD
1973	Oklahoma State	5-4-2	#13	+1.12 SD

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