Eugene Shen was previously the VP of football analytics for the Jacksonville Jaguars and a director of analytics for the Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Ravens.
New Commanders owner Josh Harris has a history in investing in analytics with the other sports franchises he owns. A hallmark of Josh Harris’s sports ownership has been his investment in sports science and analytics, using advanced treatments and data to try to give his teams advantages, no matter how small.
“Wherever we can create an edge — if we can make our players feel better, if we can accommodate their lives a little bit better, if we can set up for training better — we’re going to look at all that stuff,” he said in July. “... It takes time, and it takes investment.”Harris wasted little time investing in the Commanders. Washington hired Eugene Shen as its senior vice president of football strategy to oversee all analytics and software development for football operations; he will start Nov.
The hire, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, was a months-long process that began during training camp, shortly after Harrisof the Commanders. The final decision, that person said, was discussed and reviewed across football operations, business operations and ownership, and all were aligned.Shen’s work will span multiple departments, including coaching, personnel and football administration, to collaborate on all strategies for the football operation.
“Bringing Eugene’s level of expertise to lead our analytics and software development enables us to build on our data capabilities to help inform decision-making,” Coach Ron Rivera said in a written statement from the team. “Eugene brings a great deal of practical NFL experience, and we look forward to bringing him into our conversations about the vision of our team going forward.
A Houston native, Shen received his bachelor’s degree in applied math/economics from Harvard, where he graduated in the same class as Commanders senior vice president of football administration Rob Rogers. He went on to earn an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 1998.Shen is also the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sports Analytics, and he presented papers at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2011 and 2012.
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