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First, thanks for the update Markus! I am able to breathe a little easier knowing that BABIP is, in some way, incorporated into the OOTP engine. Although, from my studies, BABIP does not rely on stuff. The lowest 10 BABIPs in my expanded study of 66 current pitchers shows the following:
1. T.Percival
2. B.Zito
3. B.Wagner
4. E.Gagne
5. J.Washburn
6. Hoffman
7. K. Wood
8. Franklin
9. B.Webb
10. T.Wakefield
While many have good stuff, many others who have good stuff are lower on the list (Prior and Oswalt are in the bottom 10). Without getting too deep into the DIPS argument on this thread, I will just say that BABIP doesn't appear to be a composite of any of the DIPS categories. I have unsuccessfully tried to correlate BABIP to all three of the DIPS statistics, both individually and weighted with variations of Kevin Harlow's DIPS-based game scoring. In future incarnations of OOTP, I believe BABIP should be a seperate rating with the option of being hidden for those nonbelievers out there :-D
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