Wallace Wade

Head coach, 1936–1950

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

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1946–1950DukeHead Coach

1936–1941DukeHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak77Career76

1936–1950 · 11 seasonsRecord 74-25National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 77: 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 77: best five-season stretch, 1936–1939 at Duke (33-5, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 76 (#108 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (74-25), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Duke) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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
1950	Duke	7-3	#50	+0.08 SD
1949	Duke	6-3	#34	+0.42 SD
1948	Duke	4-3-2	#38	+0.45 SD
1947	Duke	4-3-2	#37	+0.41 SD
1946	Duke	4-5	#14	+0.98 SD
1941	Duke	9-1	#9	+1.16 SD
1940	Duke	7-2	#13	+1.16 SD
1939	Duke	8-1	#3	+1.61 SD
1938	Duke	9-1	#11	+1.19 SD
1937	Duke	7-2-1	#21	+0.91 SD
1936	Duke	9-1	#7	+1.28 SD

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