Programming note: Watch Matt Maiocco’s full interview with Kyle Shanahan on “49ers Game Plan,” airing Saturday at 9 p.m. PT on NBC Sports Bay Area.

As an offensive-minded coach, Kyle Shanahan has a feel for the game that allows him to take all factors into account when making game-management decisions for the 49ers.

That includes analytics — but that’s usually only when it’s a sure thing, Shanahan told NBC Sports Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco on the latest edition of “49ers Game Plan.”

“I feel like it’s a little different for an offensive play-caller,” Shanahan told Maiocco of preparing for possible in-game scenarios. “I’ve been calling plays for nine years before I came here, and I’ve been here for 10 years, so I haven’t gone through one play in that long without looking at the play clock and the game clock, thinking of the down, the distance, thinking of the field goal. You have to as a play-caller. I don’t think you always do as a defensive play-caller.”

And while all of that thinking over the years has allowed Shanahan to react purely on instinct during games, there are instances where he doesn’t have time — or doesn’t really want — to add up certain mathematical aspects of each scenario when he’s trying to think of plays and coverages.

Enter Matt Ploenzke, 49ers vice president of football research and development. Or, as Shanahan likes to call him, “analytics guy.”

“That’s where you have an analytics guy who’s like, ‘Hey, no, you get one first down here, you can take a knee. All right, game’s over. Hey, right here, we have to go for two at the end of this drive. We have to,’ ” Shanahan told Maiocco. “When it’s 50/50, I don’t need someone to tell me that. That’s just having a feel for how the game’s going. But there’s certain things that are kind of absolutes and stuff, and then everything else to me is just what I’m thinking about every time.”

As Shanahan alluded to, he typically isn’t relying on Ploenzke when a situation could go either way. While he does consult his “analytics guy” frequently, it’s not necessarily something he’s always going to rely on in situations like fourth downs, two-point conversions and end-of-half decisions, to name a few.

Shanahan and the 49ers decided to go for a two-point conversion that paid off in the fourth quarter of San Francisco’s Week 5 win over the Seattle Seahawks, after Brock Purdy connected with Brandin Cooks for a touchdown that put them ahead 27-26 with 11:10 left in the game.

Purdy completed the conversion to Mike Evans and put the 49ers up by three, 29-26, and when the Seahawks later kicked a field goal, the game was tied instead of Seattle taking the lead.

“I lean on him when it comes to the things I was just saying,” Shanahan continued. “When it’s a very analytical thing … I don’t want to hear about it if it’s 51 percent of the time we should go for it. As I always say, I’m not sitting here playing blackjack for an hour with no one else at the table, and eventually I’ll get 51 percent of it right. I have this one try, and I have a feel for it.

“I’ve been doing it too long, but what I want to know from him when it’s not a feel, when it’s, ‘No, this is 98 percent. We don’t even need to talk about it, so we don’t need to talk about. Tell me when it’s that, and I’ll just do it.”

As the 49ers prepare to face the Washington Commanders on “Monday Night Football” at Levi’s Stadium, there are sure to be more scenarios that require both feel of the game and assessing the numbers for Shanahan and Ploenzke.

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