John Bateman

Head coach, 1960–1972

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

1960–1972RutgersHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak51Career30

1960–1972 · 13 seasonsRecord 73-51National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 35: 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 51: best five-season stretch, 1960–1962 at Rutgers (22-6), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 30 (#518 since 1936): total accomplishment over 13 seasons (73-51), 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
1972	Rutgers	7-4	#85	-0.70 SD
1971	Rutgers	4-7	#99	-1.48 SD
1970	Rutgers	5-5	#104	-2.11 SD
1969	Rutgers	6-3	#64	-0.27 SD
1968	Rutgers	8-2	#83	-0.82 SD
1967	Rutgers	4-5	#100	-1.99 SD
1966	Rutgers	5-4	#101	-1.43 SD
1965	Rutgers	3-6	#102	-1.84 SD
1964	Rutgers	6-3	#96	-1.44 SD
1963	Rutgers	3-6	#102	-1.88 SD
1962	Rutgers	5-5	#101	-1.91 SD
1961	Rutgers	9-0	#73	-0.66 SD
1960	Rutgers	8-1	#55	-0.11 SD

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