Managers' win percentages

[Red Frog]

Reading a bit on the BBC site about Kevin Blackwell, he was proud to have a career win-rate of 44%. Didn't sound overly impressive, and reminded me of PdC's recent boast of a 61% rate. Managers obviously keep a close eye on these things. So I tried looking up a league table of career win percentages per manager, and couldn't find anything comprehensive on Google. Saw that up to last year SAF had a pretty eye-watering 58% rate and AVB a career 70%. Most recent table I could find was for L1 managers to October (which doesn't agree with KB's claim). Can anyone find a comprehensive league table?

Paolo Di Canio -   60% (75 games)
 Graham Westley -   50% (686)
 Joe Dunne   - 50%  (10)
 Steve Davis - 50% (32)   
 Karl Robinson - 46.4%  (127)
 Eddie Howe - 44.9%  (189)
 Uwe Rosler - 43.2%  (208)
 Richie Barker   - 42.1%  (76)
 Gary Johnson - 41.8%  (702)
 Graham Turner   - 41.2%  (1531)
 Gary Smith   - 40.7%  (152)
 Danny Wilson   - 40.5%  (916)
 Kevin Blackwell   - 38.7%  (292)
 Ronnie Moore - 38.4%  (738)
 Mark Robins - 38.1%  (228)
 Dean Saunders   - 37.1%  (211)
 Keith Curle   - 37.0%   (189)
 Greg Abbott - 36.8%  (228)
 Russell Slade - 36.0%   (566)
 Alan Knill - 33.6%   (315)
 Paul Dichov - 30.2%   (119)
 Michael Appleton - 27.0%   (48)
 Dean Smith - 26.6%   (94)

Interesting how little relation these win rates seem to have on a manager's employability.

[bigbobjoylove]

Interesting how little relation these win rates seem to have on a manager's employability.

Indeed, shown brilliantly by Appleton somehow getting the Blackpool job.

[Red Frog]

Indeed, shown brilliantly by Appleton somehow getting the Blackpool job.

Yes, somewhere there's a bonus algorithm for "struggling against adversity". Blackwell's point was that he lost 2 Championship playoff finals, and if those had gone the other way he could be managing in the Prem rather than the bottom of L1 now. So there must also be a "big game bottler" negative algorithm. Danny Wilson will also get marked down on that one.

[Bob's Orange]

Indeed, shown brilliantly by Appleton somehow getting the Blackpool job.

Clearly there are other factors involved in that. Some could say that given the financial disaster at that club, he's actually done a not bad job in the circumstances.

I actually think Ronnie Moore has done a great job at Tranmere this year, but he is also well down the list.

[bigbobjoylove]

Pompey have gone some good players though for this level? Not like they have the youth team out.

[Peter Venkman]

Pompey have gone some good players though for this level? Not like they have the youth team out.

I would say that "on paper" they have a side every bit as strong as ours and on a par with pretty much any side in this division.

But fitness, tactics and togetherness of the squad is nowhere near as good as ours.