Tom Tango
Tom Tango and "TangoTiger" are aliases used online by a baseball sabermetrics and ice hockey statistical analysis. He runs the Tango on Baseball sabermetrics website and is also a contributor to ESPN's baseball blog TMI (The Max Info).[1]
In 2006, Tango's book The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, which was co-written with Mitchel Lichtman and Andrew Dolphin, was published featuring a forward by Pete Palmer. In The Book he and his coauthors analyzed many advanced baseball questions, like how to optimize a lineup or when to issue an intentional base on balls. They also introduced the wOBA metric to measure overall offensive contributions.[2]
Tango maintains the "Marcel the Monkey Forecasting System," a player projection system which uses three years of weighted player statistics with statistical regression and player age adjustment.[3]
He is best known for developing the FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) statistic, which is claimed to more accurately assess the quality of a pitcher's performance than other statistics, such as ERA. 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke specifically mentioned FIP as his favorite statistic. "That's pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible".[4]
Tango works as a consultant for several National Hockey League teams, and has worked for Major League Baseball. Tango now works for the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays as a statistical analysis consultant.[5] [6]
Born and raised in Canada, he resides in New Jersey with his family and has insisted on keeping his true name secret.
[edit] Books
- Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. ISBN 1-59797-129-4.
[edit] References
- ^ http://espn.go.com/blog/tmi-mlb/post/_/id/3/welcome-to-espns-newest-baseball-blog TMI].
- ^ "Weighted On Base Average or wOBA". http://www.insidethebook.com/woba.shtml. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ Appelman, David (2007-02-19). "Behind the numbers: Which 2007 stats projection system is right for you?". SI.com. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/02/19/fangraphs.projections/index.html. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ Tyler Kepner, "Use of Statistics Helps Greinke to A.L. Cy Young," New York Times, November 18, 2009.
- ^ Derek Zumsteg (4 January 2009). "This guy works for the Mariners". U.S.S. Mariner. http://ussmariner.com/2009/01/04/this-guy-works-for-the-mariners/. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
- ^ Gerry McDonald (16 February 2010). "An Interview with Alex Anthopoulos". Batter's Box. http://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20100215194104834#0comments. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
[edit] External links
- Tom Tango's Tangotiger Site
- Tom Tango's The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
- Tom Tango Interview at Baseball Digest Daily - Part I
- Tom Tango Interview at Baseball Digest Daily - Part II
.jpg){kind=small}   |
This biographical article relating to a Canadian baseball player, manager, or other figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
