TangoTiger

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TangoTiger is an independent sabermetrician and former contributor to Baseball Primer and other baseball sites. His rigorous sabermetrics work kept the original Primer site rooted to its stathead origins.

He published many articles in the Primate Studies section of Old Primer. The most famous study of his was a Win Expectancy chart on how to pitch Barry Bonds in various late-inning Base-Out situations. This became known as the "What Would Tango Do?" table.

His original home before coming to Primer was the Fanhome discussion boards, where he met fellow hardcore sabermetricians MGL and patriot. The collaboration bore fruit in 2006, as he coauthored a book with MGL (The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball)) which analyzed time-honored baseball strategies to see whether they actually made any difference to scoring or preventing runs.

After the switchover to the new server software in 2004, he stopped being a full-time contributor to Baseball Think Factory. He is still around as an occasional BBTF poster and maintains his own site, "Tango on Baseball," as well as the "Inside The Book" site which supports and expands on the ideas in the book.

His first name is Tom, but he has always gone by the "TangoTiger" moniker, pronounced in the obvious manner (no "TAN got tig ger" nonsense). He was a fan of the Montréal Expos, and enjoys hockey in addition to baseball.

References

• TangoTiger's book (THE BOOK -- Playing The Percentages In Baseball) (http://www.InsideTheBook.com)
• TangoTiger's current site (tangotiger.net) (http://www.tangotiger.net)
• When to Walk Bonds, Part 1 (http://www.tangotiger.net/walkbonds.html), Part 2 (http://www.tangotiger.net/walkbonds2.html)
• Relative comparison of OBP and SLG weights in OPS, Part 1 (http://www.tangotiger.net/ops.html), Part 2 (http://www.tangotiger.net/ops2.html)