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Dips (food)
DIPS may refer to: *Defense independent pitching statistics (baseball) *Dip (exercise) *Division of International Protection Services, under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees *Washington Diplomats, a defunct professional soccer team * Nickname of Bollywood actress, Deepika Padukone *DIPS (Digital Image Processing with Sound) *Dips (TV series), Swedish comedy series See also *DIP (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defense Independent Pitching Statistics
In baseball, fielding independent pitching (FIP) (also referred to as defense independent pitching (DIP)) is intended to measure a pitcher's effectiveness based only on statistics that do not involve fielders (except the catcher). These include home runs allowed, strikeouts, hit batters, walks, and, more recently, fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and (to a much lesser extent) line drive percentage. By focusing on these statistics and ignoring what happens once a ball is put in play, which – on most plays – the pitcher has little control over, DIP claims to offer a clearer picture of the pitcher's true ability. The most controversial part of DIP is the idea that pitchers have little influence over what happens to balls that are put into play. Some people believe this has been well-established (see below), primarily by showing the large variability of most pitchers' BABIP from year to year. However, there is a wide variation in career BABIP among pitchers, and this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |