Slip Madigan

Head coach, 1936–1939

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

1943–1944IowaHead Coach

1936–1939Saint Mary's (CA)Head Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak70Career66

1936–1939 · 4 seasonsRecord 19-12National 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 70: 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 70: best five-season stretch, 1936–1938 at Saint Mary's (CA) (16-8), taking over an average program.

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
1944	Iowa	1-7	#41 (wartime)	-0.31 SD
1943	Iowa	1-6-1	#28 (wartime)	+0.04 SD
1939	Saint Mary's (CA)	3-4-1	#36	+0.38 SD
1938	Saint Mary's (CA)	6-2	#20	+0.77 SD
1937	Saint Mary's (CA)	4-3-2	#51	-0.03 SD
1936	Saint Mary's (CA)	6-3-1	#25	+0.62 SD

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