Coach Profile
1995-2010 • Ball State, Indiana
2 schools coached, anchored by Ball State.
Bill Lynch coached 12 seasons, won 40.3%, and posted an average SRS of -10.6. Best season: 2007 Indiana. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stops shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Ball State
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 35.3.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Active comparison point
7-6 • SRS 0.1 • SP Overall -0.2
Win %
53.8%
YoY SRS
+10.1
SP Off / Def
27.9 / 29.3
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Indiana
2007-2010 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -7.7 • Win % 38.8%
Ball State
1995-2002 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS -12.0 • Win % 41.1%
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Bill Lynch sets the reference point in overall strength.
Bill Lynch sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill Lynch
Lower end
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
2007-2010 • 19-30
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.8 during vs 3.4 baseline
+1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.7 during vs -8.3 baseline
+0.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.1 during vs -10.4 baseline
+5.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
1995-2002 • 37-53
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.6 during vs 6.2 baseline
-1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-12.0 during vs -12.5 baseline
+0.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-10.7 during vs -5.5 baseline
-5.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Indiana 2007
7-6 • SRS 0.1
Biggest Improvement
Ball State 2000
5-6 • 12.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Ball State 2000
5-6 • SP Off 29.2
Best Defensive Season
Ball State 1995
7-4 • SP Def 22.5
Setbacks
Worst Season
Ball State 1998
1-10 • SRS -24.5
Biggest Drop
Ball State 1998
1-10 • -16.3 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Indiana | 2010 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -9.0 | -5.3 | 28.4 | 33.5 | -2.7 | +8.3% |
| Indiana | 2009 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -6.3 | -6.7 | 25.4 | 30.4 | +9.1 | +8.3% |
| Indiana | 2008 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -15.4 | -8.3 | 24.3 | 31.6 | -15.5 | -28.8% |
| Indiana | 2007 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 0.1 | -0.2 | 27.9 | 29.3 | +10.1 | +3.9% |
| Ball State | 2002 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -10.0 | -10.6 | 27.1 | 35.5 | -0.7 | +4.5% |
| Ball State | 2001 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -9.3 | -12.0 | 24.5 | 34.4 | +2.1 | 0.0% |
| Ball State | 2000 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -11.4 | -6.7 | 29.2 | 34.8 | +12.5 | +45.5% |
| Ball State | 1999 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -23.9 | -29.0 | 14.8 | 40.2 | +0.6 | -9.1% |
| Ball State | 1998 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -24.5 | -22.2 | 16.5 | 36.7 | -16.3 | -36.4% |
| Ball State | 1997 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -8.2 | -6.8 | 25.6 | 32.0 | -4.6 | -21.2% |
| Ball State | 1996 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -3.6 | 3.1 | 26.8 | 24.7 | +1.6 | +3.0% |
| Ball State | 1995 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -5.2 | -1.7 | 20.8 | 22.5 | — | — |
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