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Tippett and DIPS (August 1, 2003)
Discussion ThreadPosted 4:32 p.m.,
August 4, 2003
(#68) -
Jason Koral
Tom Tippett probably makes an OK living from Diamond Mind; Bill James sells a few books and finally got a job in baseball after 25 years; Voros is a student. None of these guys are making millions from doing baseball analysis. If I were any of them and I saw the kind of nasty throwaway comments make on these site, Id conclude Id have been better off not bothering and using my stats skills to become a rich bond trader.
People please lay off a little here. Voros' DIPS studies werent meant to be comprehensive end of all studies; he's a guy with a day job that did some work, found some interesting results, and decided to share it knowing there was still work to be done. Ditto for Tippett. I personally am glad this work was published before it was made bullet proof so that others could gain for it. I'd hate to see this kind of behavior discouraged.
DIPS year-to-year correlations, 1972-1992 (August 5, 2003)
Posted 7:11 p.m.,
August 5, 2003
(#25) -
Jason Koral
J Michael Neal's point about higher variation in quality of outfield defense finds some support in MGL's 3-year UZR data.