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   labe
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   is there any way to use fip to determine a fielding independent whip? i think that would be a nice addition to the site.

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   Kincaid
   Member

   This article would be a good place to start if you're interested in how such a stat would work:

   http://www.futilityinfielder.com/dips.html

   FIP is basically a simplified version of that idea. If you don't care about park adjustments (as FIP doesn't), you can skip the adjustments and just use the formulae there for non-HR hits and adjusted IP to get something like the following as an FIP version of WHIP:

   3 * [ (.295*BIP + HR + BB) / (.739*BIP + SO) ]

   You can use (BF-HBP-BB-SO-HR) as BIP. .295 is about the average BABIP (using (BF-HBP-BB-SO-HR) as BIP), and .739 is about the average outs per BIP. So the above gives you baserunners (with a fielding independent hit component) per out (with a fielding independent BIP out component), times three to scale to innings. You could also add in HBP to the numerator if you want.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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