William Alexander

Head coach, 1936–1942

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1936–1944Georgia TechHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak75Career69

1936–1942 · 7 seasonsRecord 37-29National 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 75: 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 75: best five-season stretch, 1936–1939 at Georgia Tech (22-14), taking over an average program.
All of it at one program (Georgia Tech) — 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
1944	Georgia Tech	8-3	#13 (wartime)	+1.08 SD
1943	Georgia Tech	8-3	#9 (wartime)	+1.09 SD
1942	Georgia Tech	9-2	#5	+1.47 SD
1941	Georgia Tech	3-6	#56	-0.01 SD
1940	Georgia Tech	3-7	#59	-0.17 SD
1939	Georgia Tech	8-2	#12	+1.25 SD
1938	Georgia Tech	3-4-3	#49	+0.14 SD
1937	Georgia Tech	6-3-1	#19	+0.96 SD
1936	Georgia Tech	5-5-1	#23	+0.65 SD

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