Tom Federico
Tom's interest in the statistical side of sports sprouted back in the late 1980s, when he spent his days 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 such as Matt Koidin and Mike Greenfield from engaging in Animal House like behavior. Mike was not a problem.
After work stints at a couple Silicon Valley startups, Capital One Financial, and Stanford Business School, Tom ran into Mike outside the Palo Alto post office one day in late 2004. He soon asked the fateful question, "So what the heck ever happened to that sports web site of yours?" Tom now runs the day to day operations of TeamRankings.com and is primarily responsible for strategy, marketing, and business development. He is also the outward face of the site, assisting journalists with interview and research requests and making radio and television appearances.
Matt Koidin
Matt is the token hard core sports fan at TeamRankings.com. While his peers are delightfully geeking out over prediction model hypothesis testing and optimization, Matt somehow finds the time to do oddly normal things like read the sports sites, watch SportsCenter, and attend live sporting events for fun. He actually knows who the Patriots drafted this year and whether the Red Sox won last night. He also plays in five fantasy football leagues, so Tom and Mike don't have to feel bad about playing in none.
Like Tom, Matt fled the Boston area for Palo Alto, although over the years he has done a way better job of maintaining his Beantown sports cred. After graduating from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science, Matt co-founded Justarrive, the first e-ticketing platform for college and professional sports teams. He went on to earn his MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business and served as a Manager in the Strategy and Operations group of Deloitte Consulting. Today, as TeamRankings.com's engineering lead, Matt is in charge of building products that unleash the power of our data and technology in exciting new ways.
Mike Greenfield
Mike started building quantitative sports power ratings in 1997 at the tender age of 19. After teaching himself enough programming to build a basic web site, he launched the original TeamRankings.com from his Stanford dorm room in 2000 as a hobby. Years before the world knew what Moneyball was, Mike's data driven power ratings and analysis soon acheived national prominence, especially in college basketball. In March 2001, Sports Illustrated profiled Mike and TeamRankings.com in a feature on March Madness.
After a numbers-obsessed youth in which he memorized 36 significant digits of Pi, Mike broke west from Philly to earn a BS degree in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford, and has deployed his analytical talents at Internet companies including PayPal and LinkedIn, one of the world's largest social networks. In addition to his involvement with Team Rankings, Mike is the co-founder of Bantr, creator of the "Circle of Friends" application downloaded by over ten million Facebook users.