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27-656: (Redirected from Dips ) DIPS may refer to: Defense independent pitching statistics (baseball) Dip (exercise) Division of International Protection Services , under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Washington Diplomats , a defunct professional soccer team Nickname of Bollywood actress, Deepika Padukone DIPS (Digital Image Processing with Sound) Dips (TV series) , Swedish comedy series See also [ edit ] DIP (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

54-441: A cartoonist who goes by “Tuck!” One of THT's best-known and most controversial writers, John Brattain, died on March 24, 2009. The site is edited by Joe Distelheim, Travis Conrads, Jeremiah Oshan and Bryan Tsao. THT also features a blog, THT Live, which is run by Novick. The Hardball Times includes a dedicated fantasy section, running multiple articles a day five days a week. Its writers include Derek Carty, who has been there from

81-471: A pitcher has a high xFIP, but also induces a lot of ground balls and popups, his SIERA will be lower than his xFIP. The calculations for it are as follows: where SO is strikeouts , PA is plate appearances , BB is bases on balls , GB is ground ball , FB is fly ball , and PU is pop-up In 1999, Voros McCracken became the first to detail and publicize these effects to the baseball research community when he wrote on rec.sport.baseball, "I've been working on

108-476: A pitcher's 'Batting Average on Balls In Play' ( BABIP ). His research found the opposite to be true: that while a pitcher's ability to cause strikeouts or prevent home runs remained somewhat constant from season to season, his ability to prevent hits on balls in play did not. To better evaluate pitchers in light of his theory, McCracken developed " Defense-Independent ERA " (dERA), the most well-known defense-independent pitching statistic. McCracken's formula for dERA

135-468: A pitcher's actual home run total with an expected home run total (xHR). where xHR is calculated using the league average home run per fly ball rate (lgHR/FB) multiplied by the number of fly balls the pitcher has allowed. Typically, the lgHR/FB is around 10.5%, meaning 10.5% of fly balls go for home runs. In 2015, it was 11.4%. Baseball Prospectus invented this statistic, which takes into account balls in play and adjusts for balls in play. For example, if

162-540: A pitching evaluation tool and thought I'd post it here to get some feedback. I call it 'Defensive Independent Pitching' and what it does is evaluate a pitcher base[d] strictly on the statistics his defense has no ability to affect..." Until the publication of a more widely read article in 2001, however, on Baseball Prospectus , most of the baseball research community believed that individual pitchers had an inherent ability to prevent hits on balls in play. McCracken reasoned that if this ability existed, it would be noticeable in

189-456: A pre-season book, The Hardball Times Season Preview . The book consisted of 30 team essays, over 1,000 player comments, and projections for each player. It also featured projected standings, career projections, and multiple essays in the back of the book, mostly concerning fantasy baseball. In the 2010, the book was replaced by THT Forecasts. In 2004, Steve Treder and Dave Studeman also released The Hardball Times Bullpen Book , which chronicled

216-401: A slew of other factors go into whether a ball hit into play falls for a hit. For many people in the game and others who simply watch it, our ability to recognize the influence of defense, park effects, and dumb luck can be traced back to that one little article". DIP ERA was added to ESPN.com's Sortable Stats in 2004. The Hardball Times The Hardball Times (abbreviated as THT ) is

243-411: A slightly different FIP equation, instead using 3*(BB+HBP-IBB) rather than simply 3*(BB) where "HBP" stands for batters hit by pitch and "IBB" stands for intentional base on balls. Dave Studeman of The Hardball Times derived Expected Fielding Independent Pitching (xFIP), a regressed version of FIP. Calculated like FIP, it differs in that it normalizes the number of home runs the pitcher allows, replacing

270-520: A website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight. Daily." Run by current owner Dave Studeman and David Gassko, it was founded by Aaron Gleeman and Bill James ' assistant Matthew Namee in 2004. Fangraphs acquired

297-434: Is a constant that renders league FIP for the time period in question equal to league ERA for the same period. It is calculated as: where lgERA is the league average ERA, lgHR is the number of home runs in the league, lgBB is the number of walks in the league, lgK is the number of strikeouts in the league, and lgIP is the number of innings pitched in the league. The Hardball Times , a popular baseball statistics website, uses

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324-975: Is a scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks ; Dan Fox, who is the Director of Baseball Systems Development for the Pittsburgh Pirates ; Adam Guttridge, who is a Baseball Operations Analyst for the Milwaukee Brewers; and Josh Kalk, who is a Baseball Operations Analyst with the Tampa Bay Rays ). Its staff as of 2010 included Richard Barbieri, John Barten, Brian Borawski, Kevin Dame, Joshua Fisher, Brandon Isleib, Chris Jaffe, Brad Johnson, Max Marchi, Bruce Markusen, Dan Novick, Harry Pavlidis, Alex Pedicini, Jeff Sackmann, Mike Silver, Nick Steiner, Steve Treder, Geoff Young, Ricky Zanker, and

351-492: Is a wide variation in career BABIP among pitchers, and this seems to correlate with career success. For instance, no pitcher in the Hall of Fame has a below-average career BABIP. Each of the following formulae uses innings pitched (IP), a measure of the number of outs a team made while a pitcher was in the game. Since most outs rely on fielding, the results from calculations using IP are not truly independent of team defense. While

378-451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Defense independent pitching statistics The most controversial part of DIP is the idea that pitchers have little influence over what happens to balls that are put into play. Some people believe this has been well-established (see below), primarily by showing the large variability of most pitchers' BABIP from year to year. However, there

405-456: Is regarded by many in the sabermetric community as the most important piece of baseball research in many years. As Jonah Keri wrote in 2012, "When Voros McCracken wrote his seminal piece on pitching and defense 11 years ago, he helped change the way people—fans, writers, even general managers—think about run prevention in baseball. Where once we used to throw most of the blame for a hit on the pitcher who gave it up, McCracken helped us realize that

432-589: Is very complicated, with a number of steps. DIP ERA is not as useful for knuckleballers and other "trick" pitchers, a factor that McCracken mentioned a few days after his original announcement of his research findings in 1999, in a posting on the rec.sport.baseball.analysis Usenet site on November 23, 1999, when he wrote: "Also to [note] is that, anecdotally, I believe pitchers with trick deliveries (e.g. Knuckleballers) might post consistently lower $ H numbers than other pitchers. I looked at Tim Wakefield 's career and that seems to bear out slightly". In later postings on

459-560: The AL and NL. Launched in March 2010, THT Forecasts begins its third season as a subscription-only section featuring Brian Cartwright's Oliver Projections . Subscribers can access six years worth of projections, including minor league players, which are updated weekly during the season. Since its inception in 2004, The Hardball Times has released an annual book, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual . From 2007–2009, The Hardball Times also released

486-409: The creators of DICE, FIP and similar statistics all suggest they are "defense independent", others have pointed out that their formulas involve (IP). IP is a statistical measure of how many outs were made while a pitcher was pitching. This includes those made by fielders who are typically involved in more than two thirds of the outs. These critics claim this makes pitchers' DICE or FIP highly dependent on

513-492: The current year. Tom Tango independently derived a similar formula, known as Fielding Independent Pitching, which is very close to the results of dERA and DICE. In that equation, "HR" is home runs, "BB" is walks, "K" is strikeouts, and "IP" is innings pitched. That equation usually gives a number that is nothing close to a normal ERA (this is the FIP core), so the equation used is more often (but not always) this one: where C

540-404: The defensive play of their fielders. A simple formula, known as Defense-Independent Component ERA (DICE), was created by Clay Dreslough in 1998: In that equation, "HR" is home runs, "BB" is walks, "HBP" is hit batters, "K" is strikeouts, and "IP" is innings pitched. That equation gives a number that is better at predicting a pitcher's ERA in the following year than the pitcher's actual ERA in

567-410: The field of play (BHFP). Controversy over DIP was heightened when Tom Tippett at Diamond Mind published his own findings in 2003. Tippett concluded that the differences between pitchers in preventing hits on balls in play were at least partially the result of the pitcher's skill. Tippett analyzed certain groups of pitchers that appear to be able to reduce the number of hits allowed on balls hit into

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594-409: The field of play (BHFP). Like McCracken, Tippett found that pitchers' BABIP was more volatile on an annual basis than the rates at which they gave up home runs or walks. It was this greater volatility that had led McCracken to conclude pitchers had "little or no control" over hits on balls in play. But Tippett also found large and significant differences between pitchers' career BABIP. In many cases, it

621-412: The rec.sport.baseball site during 1999 and 2000 (prior to the publication of his widely read article on BaseballProspectus.com in 2001), McCracken also discussed other pitcher characteristics that might influence BABIP. In 2002 McCracken created and published version 2.0 of dERA, which incorporates the ability of knuckleballers and other types of pitchers to affect the number of hits allowed on balls hit in

648-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DIPS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DIPS&oldid=1061152676 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

675-508: The site in 2012. The Hardball Times went on temporary hiatus in early 2020 due to decreasing traffic caused by the delay of the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic . The Hardball Times maintains a large and ever-changing stable of writers; many of its writers have gone on to work for larger media organizations (former writers Aaron Gleeman and Craig Calcaterra both work for NBC ) or major league baseball teams (including Carlos Gomez, who

702-544: The start, as well as Derek Ambrosino, Jeffrey Gross, Matt Hagen, Jonathan Halket, Jeremiah Oshan, Josh Shepardson, and Jonathan Sher. THT Fantasy is edited by Travis Conrads, Ben Jacobs, and Jeremiah Oshan. THT Fantasy runs a weekly "Roster Doctor" column in which writers dissect a reader's roster and features a daily updated "Closer Watch" feature, which allows readers to keep up tabs on the closer situation for all 30 Major League teams. THT Fantasy also features weekly waiver wire articles that dissect undervalued fantasy players in

729-471: Was these differences that accounted for the pitchers' relative success. However, improvements to DIP that look at more nuanced defense-independent stats than strikeouts, home runs, and walks (such as groundball rate), have been able to account for many of the BABIP differences that Tippet identified without reintroducing the noise from defense variability. Despite other criticisms, the work by McCracken on DIP

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