John Michelosen

Head coach, 1955–1965

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

1955–1965PittsburghHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak72Career71

1955–1965 · 11 seasonsRecord 56-49National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 72: 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 72: best five-season stretch, 1955–1957 at Pittsburgh (18-13), taking over an average program.
Career 71 (#174 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (56-49), 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
1965	Pittsburgh	3-7	#67	-0.25 SD
1964	Pittsburgh	3-5-2	#39	+0.43 SD
1963	Pittsburgh	9-1	#6	+1.43 SD
1962	Pittsburgh	5-5	#59	+0.09 SD
1961	Pittsburgh	3-7	#55	-0.08 SD
1960	Pittsburgh	4-3-3	#23	+0.90 SD
1959	Pittsburgh	6-4	#43	+0.21 SD
1958	Pittsburgh	5-4-1	#23	+0.62 SD
1957	Pittsburgh	4-6	#45	+0.15 SD
1956	Pittsburgh	7-3-1	#17	+0.93 SD
1955	Pittsburgh	7-4	#16	+0.91 SD

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