Tom Federico

Tom’s interest in the statistical side of sports sprouted back in the late 1980s, when he spent his weekends as a Strat-O-Matic Fanatic and his nights trying to get Euler to pitch a perfect game on the Commodore 64. After ditching the frigid climes of Boston for sunny California, he earned a BS and MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford.

Serving as a Resident Assistant in Branner Hall during his junior year, Tom’s job was to discourage unsupervised 18 year olds, including Mike Greenfield and Matt Koidin, from engaging in Animal House style behavior. Mike was not a problem.

After working in product and marketing roles at a Silicon Valley startup, Capital One Financial, and Stanford Business School, Tom was looking to do something more entrepreneurial when he ran into Mike outside the Palo Alto post office one sunny day in late 2004. He soon asked the fateful question, “So whatever happened to that sports web site of yours?”

Tom now runs the day to day operations of TeamRankings. Although he does a little bit of everything (except writing code, although learning SQL has been on his to-do list for the better part of a decade now), he is primarily responsible for product strategy, business development, marketing, and building the team.