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In a series of recent posts, including ones detailing my ongoing project to form a valid estimate of the impact of pitchers’ “ball in play” propensities on runs allowed (keep your eyes peeled for an enhanced,...
You know I’m still perfecting BIP_RBA_v2, of course! But don’t worry, I won’t subject you to yet another report on my progress (as productive, frankly, as I think some of the latest adjustments to this...
Well, I think I’ve exhausted myself (and all 17,936 regular readers of this blog) on this one. I don’t expect to say more about BIP_RBA (“balls-in-play runs below average”) for...
As you likely would have guessed, I’ve been obsessively refining the “balls-in-play runs below average”—BIP_RBA—metric. I feel what I have now can be officially designated “version 1.0,” superseding BIP_RBAb,...
Okay, I promised to say something about Balls-in-Play Runs Below Average (BIP_RBA) and opponant Batting Average for Balls in Play (oBABIP). But I don’t plan to say a lot.
First, BABIP is an annoyingly...
So how about knuckleballers? Do they throw balls that, when hit, are easier to field?
This is often claimed. Their BIP_RBARb seems to support this position.
BIP_RBARb stands for “balls-in-play runs below...