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- Games
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- Win rate
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Joker Phillips
2010-2012 • Kentucky
One defining program at Kentucky.
Joker Phillips's coaching record is 13-24, highlighted by seasons at Kentucky from 2010 to 2012.
Joker Phillips coached 3 seasons, won 35.1%, and posted an average SRS of -3.4. Best season: 2010 Kentucky. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 13-24
- Career win rate
- 35.1%
- Average SRS
- -3.4
- Peak SRS
- 3.2
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 77.0
Primary school anchor
Kentucky
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 42.2.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 13-24
- Kentucky record
- 13-24
- Full-season record
- 13-24
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Tennessee
- 1-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
37 countable games, 35.1% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Kentucky.
3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Kentucky-Tennessee games in this dataset.
1 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 24, 2012. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Joker Phillips
EliteStrongAverageLean
2010Actual season year • SRS range -7.6 to 3.22012
Active comparison point
Joker Phillips • 2010
2010 Kentucky
Best season6-7 • SRS 3.2 • SP Overall 6.0
Win %
46.2%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
34.6 / 28.9
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
1-4
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 20.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results12
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Kentucky
2010-2012 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -3.4 • Win % 35.1%
- Longest tenure
- Kentucky • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kentucky • -3.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kentucky • 35.1%
Style and Strength Profile
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.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Joker Phillips sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJoker Phillips sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Joker Phillips
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -2.6
- Percentile
- 48th pct
Mixed
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Kentucky
2010-2012 • 13-24
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.4Win % 35.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.3 during vs 6.6 baseline
-2.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.4 during vs 2.8 baseline
-6.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.6 during vs 0.6 baseline
-3.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kentucky 2010
6-7 • SRS 3.2
Biggest Improvement
Kentucky 2012
2-10 • -1.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kentucky 2010
6-7 • SP Off 34.6
Best Defensive Season
Kentucky 2011
5-7 • SP Def 23.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Kentucky 2012
2-10 • SRS -7.6
Biggest Drop
Kentucky 2011
5-7 • -9.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kentucky | 2012 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -7.6 | -8.7 | 22.3 | 29.8 | -1.7 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Kentucky | 2011 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -5.9 | -5.0 | 16.4 | 23.1 | -9.1 | -4.5% | Season summary |
| Kentucky | 2010 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 3.2 | 6.0 | 34.6 | 28.9 | — | — | Season summary |
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