Ray Perkins

Head coach, 1983–1992

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1992Arkansas StateHead Coach

1983–1986AlabamaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak64Career68

1983–1992 · 5 seasonsRecord 34-24National titles 0Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 60: 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 64: best five-season stretch, 1983–1986 at Alabama (32-15, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over already a national power.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Alabama).

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
1992	Arkansas State	2-9	#107	-2.32 SD
1986	Alabama	10-3	#7	+1.65 SD
1985	Alabama	9-2-1	#7	+1.50 SD
1984	Alabama	5-6	#33	+0.65 SD
1983	Alabama	8-4	#6	+1.53 SD

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