...but his teams consistently punched above their NFL draft weight!
Here is a table listing number of players drafted by the NFL over the last 25 years, along with a crude estimate of the expected win% given than talent level, the actual win%, and the difference expressed in terms of games per season:
Team | #Draft | Expected% | Actual% | +/- |
Ga Tech | 49 | 0.383 | 0.564 | +2.2 |
Duke | 12 | 0.157 | 0.329 | +2.1 |
Wake | 31 | 0.273 | 0.438 | +2.0 |
Louisville | 62 | 0.432 | 0.614 | +1.8 |
BC | 57 | 0.432 | 0.546 | +1.4 |
Pitt | 54 | 0.413 | 0.516 | +1.2 |
Syracuse | 51 | 0.395 | 0.486 | +1.1 |
VT | 93 | 0.652 | 0.708 | +0.7 |
NC State | 68 | 0.499 | 0.531 | +0.4 |
UVA | 66 | 0.487 | 0.514 | +0.3 |
Clemson | 96 | 0.670 | 0.690 | +0.2 |
UNC | 88 | 0.621 | 0.495 | -1.5 |
FSU | 147 | 0.982 | 0.726 | -3.1 |
Miami | 138 | 0.927 | 0.670 | -3.1 |
Here's how you read this table:
At the top is Georgia Tech, who had 49 NFL draft picks over the last 25 years. You would expect a team with just under 2 NFL players per season to win about 38.3% of its games - but somehow [ahem, triple-option] managed to win 56.4% of them instead - or +2.2 wins more than you'd expect a team with that level of talent to win. No surprise that Duke and Wake also overachieve because, hey, they just don't get a lot of NFL players!
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