Ray Willsey

Head coach, 1964–1971

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

1964–1971CaliforniaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak72Career68

1964–1971 · 8 seasonsRecord 40-42National 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, 1967–1971 at California (29-23), taking over an average program.
Career 68 (#227 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (40-42), 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
1971	California	6-5	#49	+0.02 SD
1970	California	6-5	#23	+0.83 SD
1969	California	5-5	#31	+0.55 SD
1968	California	7-3-1	#16	+1.14 SD
1967	California	5-5	#57	-0.08 SD
1966	California	3-7	#77	-0.43 SD
1965	California	5-5	#36	+0.42 SD
1964	California	3-7	#41	+0.40 SD

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