Did Dazzy Vance have the greatest starting-pitcher season ever? eFIP part II
So here is a fun follow-up to the last post. That one introduced “eFIP,” a pitcher estimator that uses empirically derived weights for fielding-independent outcomes—strikeouts, walks, home runs allowed, and hit batters. I outlined its derivation and explained how it can be used to form an expected runs-saved per inning estimator. Then I showed that […]