VÖRÖS' BASEBALL ANALYSIS PAGE

Defense Independent Pitching Stats

• Defense Independent Pitching Stats
  • Pitching and Defense on Baseball Prospectus - A link to the piece I wrote for BP on this subject.
  • Rob Neyer's article - Rob discusses Hits on Balls in Play and prominently feature's the BP piece.
  • I answer questions about DIPS from Baseball Prospectus Readers
  • Defense Independent Pitching Stats 2001 - Here's this year's stats!
  • Defense Independent Pitching Stats 2000 - Last Year's Stats.
  • Defense Independent Pitching Stats 1999 - The 1999 DIPS stats are still on my old site. I guess I'm too lazy to move them.
  • DIPS Explained - First of two articles on James Fraser's site explaining DIPS.
  • DIPS Explained Part II - The second article which goes into DIPS correlation with ERA the following season.
  • DIPS Argument of Epic Proportions! - A gigantic discussion/argument/flamewar erupted on Usenet over the Summer in a thread about the AL Cy Young. The link is to Deja.com's usenet site. Want to hear DIPS argued and discussed from many different perspectives? Here you go.

Evaluation

• Projected All Stars for 2002
• 2002 Projections - Some of the 2002 projections are up. These are the pitcher projections. The hitters will be posted first.
• Batter Pitcher Matchups (coming soon) - A look at how we may be able to gain insight statistically at which types of hitters do well against which types of pitchers.
• Pitcher Evaluation methods
  • Support Neutral Won/Loss Records by Michael Wolverton at Baseball Prospectus.
  • VORP by Keith Woolner.