David Shaw

Head coach

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

Chemistry

continuity at Stanford · early

Seasons here—

Programs1

Stints1

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2011–2022StanfordHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical

How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Stanford

Tenure here

Seasons as head coach at his current school

Staff continuity

Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together

Player retention

Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)

Followers

Players and staff who followed him from his previous job

QB & coordinator

How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator

Roster continuity

Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him

Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.

As head coach

Rating73Peak79Career76

2011–2022 · 12 seasonsRecord 96-54National titles 0Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 73: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 2011–2013 at Stanford (34-7, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 76 (#110 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (96-54), 0 national titles, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Stanford) — 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
2022	Stanford	3-9	#86	-0.48 SD
2021	Stanford	3-9	#81	-0.25 SD
2020	Stanford	4-2	—	—
2019	Stanford	4-8	#71	-0.14 SD
2018	Stanford	9-4	#34	+0.66 SD
2017	Stanford	9-5	#25	+0.95 SD
2016	Stanford	10-3	#19	+1.03 SD
2015	Stanford	12-2	#5	+1.60 SD
2014	Stanford	8-5	#18	+1.18 SD
2013	Stanford	11-3	#5	+1.60 SD
2012	Stanford	12-2	#14	+1.23 SD
2011	Stanford	11-2	#5	+1.90 SD

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