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Originally posted by Anonymous Ghost
Did someone do a scientific anaylsis of the preceeding decades?
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this by Tippett. From the in-OOTP perspective, it takes the side essentially favoring a small modifier. But I think it shows that in general the applicability DIPS in not dependent on the timeframe, at least since WWI.
Randomly players vary within the DIPS system away from the league average baseline. So in fictional leagues for me it's Kool and the Gang. To get historical players accurate, a modifier would obvisously sound good so the right players are "non-randomly" better. But what if a pitcher was lucky to some extent to be as good as he was IRL? A pitcher can also be better than his teammates if he pitches better to his defense's strengthes. Again, I don't think DIPS is quite everything, but to me for OOTP DIPS has been shown to be better than the old system, and I would have to be convinced a different system, like DIPS with this particular modifier - {X}, would be better.