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3-dbaseball.net - 10/10/2009

Evaluating Pitchers with FIP, Part I

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With the Cy Young races tight this year, every choice on how to evaluate pitcher performance can change the conclusion. For many, the emphasis on evaluating what happened means excluding stats like FIP. Should it? Do these stats tell you what happened or just what is likely to happen going forward?

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3-dbaseball.net - 10/10/2009

Evaluating Pitchers with FIP, Part II

— 3-dbaseball.net — With the Cy Young races tight this year, every choice on how to evaluate pitcher performance can... change the conclusion. For many, the emphasis on evaluating what happened means excluding stats like FIP. Should it? Do these stats tell you what happened or just what is likely to happen going forward? (more) Evaluating Pitchers with FIP, Part II

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THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Courtesy of Kincaid: parts 1 and 2: Next, we determine the value of each event relative to the value of a BIP by taking the difference between each value and -.04: HR 1.44 3B 0.34 out -0.23 BIP 0 This is the value of each event used in FIP. The formula above puts these weights onto a scale of per 9 innings; in other words, each weight is multiplied by 9, and then divided by IP. That gives you 13, 3, -2, and 0 as the weights per inning. So BIP are still there, just hidden in the formula. Their ...

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Viva El Birdos — ... FIP... attempts to take out some of the aspects of ERA that are much less under a pitchers control, such as defense and timing.  It relies on home runs, walks and strikeouts to rate pitchers.  Despite it's simplicity, or maybe because of it, it is the most used defense independent pitching stat out there.  Kincaid, over at 3-D Baseball recently wrote a two ...