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Originally posted by Big Train
All the good pitchers like Johnson and Alexander had BABIP significantly lower than the league average. It's interesting that the person who actually went back and looked that far didn't totally support DIPS. As for why not before 1913 there was some stat they need to calculate the formula that they only started keeping track of then (sacrifice hits maybe?)
I would bet a lot of money that if it could be calculated though you'd find guys like Young and Joss with BABIP much lower than the league average.
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I think we mustn't miss the point of Tippett. The ability exists, but is virtually irrelevant in comparison with BB/K/HR.
We musn't miss the point of OOTP either. Markus and Craig have said that BABIP is affected by a hidden modifier. As no-one has yet to show any examples of OOTP6 not generating exceptions, then what are we worried about?
Unless you can prove McCracken/Tippett not to be the rule, or it can be proved their's no exceptions, then what are we arguing about?
