Top 25
29-28
- Games
- 57
- Win rate
- 50.9%
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Coach Profile
David Shaw
2011-2022 • Stanford
One defining program at Stanford.
David Shaw coached 12 seasons, won 64.0%, and posted an average SRS of 11.0. Best season: 2011 Stanford. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 96-54
- Career win rate
- 64.0%
- Average SRS
- 11.0
- Peak SRS
- 23.4
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
- 12
- Career span
- 12 years
- Best finish
- #3
- Consistency
- 14.6
Primary school anchor
Stanford
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 90.2.
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.
David Shaw
EliteStrongAverageLean
2011Actual season year • SRS range -5.1 to 23.42022
Active comparison point
David Shaw • 2011
2011 Stanford
Best season11-2 • SRS 23.4 • SP Overall 20.0
Win %
84.6%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
44.6 / 24.5
Finish
#7
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
11-12
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 47.8%
Top 5
5-4
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 55.6%
View ranked game results57
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Stanford
2011-2022 • 12 seasons
Avg SRS 11.0 • Win % 64.0%
- Longest tenure
- Stanford • 12 seasons
- Best tenure
- Stanford • 11.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Stanford • 64.0%
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.
David Shaw sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDavid Shaw sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
David Shaw
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 11.3
- Percentile
- 88th pct
Elite
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.
Stanford
2011-2022 • 96-54
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 11.0Win % 64.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 6.0 baseline
+2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.0 during vs 6.0 baseline
+5.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
11.3 during vs 4.0 baseline
+7.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Stanford 2011
11-2 • SRS 23.4
Biggest Improvement
Stanford 2013
11-3 • 6.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Stanford 2011
11-2 • SP Off 44.6
Best Defensive Season
Stanford 2014
8-5 • SP Def 12.0
Setbacks
Worst Season
Stanford 2022
3-9 • SRS -5.1
Biggest Drop
Stanford 2019
4-8 • -10.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Stanford | 2022 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -5.1 | -7.2 | 25.6 | 34.2 | -2.4 | 0.0% |
| Stanford | 2021 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -2.7 | -10.2 | 22.2 | 33.6 | — | -41.7% |
| Stanford | 2020 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +33.3% |
| Stanford | 2019 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | #25 | — | -1.9 | -4.7 | 27.2 | 32.2 | -10.2 | -35.9% |
| Stanford | 2018 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | #13 | — | 8.3 | 13.0 | 35.4 | 24.3 | -4.2 | +5.0% |
| Stanford | 2017 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | #14 | #20 | 12.5 | 15.8 | 37.7 | 24.5 | -0.2 | -12.6% |
| Stanford | 2016 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #8 | #12 | 12.7 | 16.4 | 31.2 | 17.5 | -7.9 | -8.8% |
| Stanford | 2015 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #21 | #3 | 20.6 | 22.8 | 44.5 | 24.5 | +5.5 | +24.2% |
| Stanford | 2014 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #11 | — | 15.1 | 21.4 | 33.5 | 12.0 | -7.4 | -17.0% |
| Stanford | 2013 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #4 | #11 | 22.5 | 21.7 | 35.8 | 15.5 | +6.8 | -7.1% |
| Stanford | 2012 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | #21 | #7 | 15.7 | 15.3 | 29.2 | 14.2 | -7.7 | +1.1% |
| Stanford | 2011 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #7 | #7 | 23.4 | 20.0 | 44.6 | 24.5 | — | — |
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