Information: - ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Networks) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network) and the Hearst Corporation (which owns a 20% minority share). - Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. - Tom Tango and '' TangoTiger '' are aliases used online by a baseball sabermetrics and ice hockey statistics analyst . He runs the Tango on Baseball sabermetrics website and is also a contributor to ESPN 's baseball blog TMI ( The Max Info ) . 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 foreword 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 . 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 . He is best known for developing the FIP ( Fielding Independent Pitching ) statistic , which attempts 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 '' . Tango works as a consultant for several National Hockey League teams , and has worked for Major League Baseball . Tango has worked for the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays as a statistical analysis consultant . As of 2013 , he works exclusively for the Chicago Cubs in a similar role . Born and raised in Canada , he resides in New Jersey with his family and has insisted on keeping his true name secret . - A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25MHz for NTSC analog video (VSB) and 59.75MHz for analog audio (FM), or 55.31MHz for digital ATSC (8VSB). Channels may be shared by many different television stations or cable-distributed channels depending on the location and service provider. - George William "Bill" James (born October 5, 1949) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His "Baseball Abstract" books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory). - The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball. Established in Cooperstown, New York, in August 1971 by sportswriter Bob Davids, it is based in Phoenix, Arizona. - A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Most joint ventures are incorporated, although some, as in the oil and gas industry, are "unincorporated" joint ventures that mimic a corporate entity. Key elements of a joint venture's design include: 1) the number of parties; 2) the geographic, product, technology and value-chain scope within which the JV will operate; 3) the contributions of the parties; 4) the structural form (each country has specific options, e.g. in the U.S. the main options are a C Corporation or an LLC/partnership structure); 5) the valuation of initial contributions and ownership split among the parties; 6) the economic arrangements, post-deal (e.g. Is the joint venture intended to general profits vs. operate as a cost-sharing or production-sharing venture; if a for-profit entity, will the parties share profits in proportion to equity ownership, or some other way?); 7) governance and control; 8) Talent/HR model (will the Jv have its own staff on own payroll vs. second staff from the parent companies; 9) contractual arrangements with the parent companies for inputs, outputs or services; 10) exit and evolution provisions? - Sabermetrics is the empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. Sabermetricians collect and summarize the relevant data from this in-game activity to answer specific questions. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research, founded in 1971. The term sabermetrics was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face. - ESPN Inc. is an American sports media conglomerate based in Bristol, Connecticut. Jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation (which owns a 20% minority share), it owns various sports broadcasting operations, including cable channels (such as the titular ESPN), a sports radio network, an accompanying website, and other assets. - The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the world's second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, after Comcast. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and theme parks. The company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio, then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing, and online media. What is the relationship between 'tom tango' and 'statistician'?
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