Coaches / Offensive coordinator / Tim Lester
Career
59
not coaching now
Rating68recent
Peak69best 5 yrs
Career59whole career
confidence
Tim Lester
Offensive Coordinator · Iowa
Headline rating: as offensive coordinator. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
66
continuity at Western Michigan · early
Seasons here2
Programs4
Stints6
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.
As head coach
Rating56Peak56Career59
2004–2022 · 11 seasonsRecord 67-53National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 56: 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 56: best five-season stretch, 2004–2011 at Saint Joseph's and Elmhurst (30-21).
- Career 59 (#354 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (67-53), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Western Michigan | 5-7 | #119 | -1.29 SD |
| 2021 | Western Michigan | 8-5 | #95 | -0.66 SD |
| 2020 | Western Michigan | 4-2 | — | — |
| 2019 | Western Michigan | 7-6 | #79 | -0.34 SD |
| 2018 | Western Michigan | 7-6 | #99 | -0.81 SD |
| 2017 | Western Michigan | 6-6 | #83 | -0.34 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).
As offensive coordinator
Rating68Peak69
His offense against its preseason projection (value over expectation) and the unit's opponent-adjusted quality.
Season score: 0 = an average season in this role; positive = better.