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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Then you don’t understand how statistics work. Play the game your way. That’s fine. You created a thread to argue that FIP is “pointless” and implying that nobody, not just only people who understand stats
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That's not what I said. I said that,
in OOTP, we now have Pitcher BABIP (something that doesn't exist in real life), so,
in OOTP, that renders FIP and Pitcher WAR (based on FIP) sort of pointless.
Then someone pointed out that Pitcher BABIP in OOTP is only for
historical leagues, and I said something along the lines, "oh, that makes sense then". That constituted the end to my concern.
What it ultimately means is that Pitcher BABIP is used in OOTP to bring pitchers' historical simulations more in line with their historical performance in a way that cannot be done with just relying on FIP. Which I think is great because it improves the accuracy of the sim.
In no way was I questioning the statistical validity or relevance of real-world FIP as a predictive stat.