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- initialism baseball
defense-independent pitching statistics
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Examples
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Broke and broken down, he's had a fairly rough decade since the introduction of DIPS.
Story pick: 'Sabermetrician In Exile' J. Freedom du Lac 2011
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But he's something of a legend among the baseball stat nerds known as sabermetricians for his groundbreaking discovery of an idea known as Defense Independent Pitching Statistics, or DIPS.
Story pick: 'Sabermetrician In Exile' J. Freedom du Lac 2011
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Introduced by McCracken in 2001 on an obscure Internet newsgroup, DIPS, as Jeff Passan writes in an excellent piece for Yahoo's new sports-features site The Post Game, was "a premise so radical that even McCracken sometimes laughed at it."
Story pick: 'Sabermetrician In Exile' J. Freedom du Lac 2011
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His method is like a tango – swirl, kick, clutch and only once in a while, that big dip – but when he dips, he DIPS.
internal/external « 2009
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Sabermetricians for several years have been using an ERA based only on defense independent stats (DIPS ERA).
Breaking Down the Clemens Report: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The second DEBS book, LOVE, LIES, AND TEXAS DIPS, will be out in June of 2009, and Susan's busy writing GLOVES OFF.
Nip It in the Bud! | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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The second DEBS book, LOVE, LIES, AND TEXAS DIPS, will be out in June of 2009, and Susan's busy writing the third.
Finding Myself Again | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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Voros McCracken showed that using strikeouts, walks, and homers (Defense Independent Pitching Statistics, or DIPS) to evaluate pitchers without their fielders does a better job of evaluating pitcher performance than ERA.
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That it coordinated the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIPS) agency, making a CHIPS and DIPS combination, raised no eyebrows to the tutored eye.
Art Brodsky: Hollywood's Greed Makes April Fool's Joke Believable 2008
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For a community used to acronyms and bureaucracy, the creation of a Department of Intellectual Property Security (DIPS) was no big deal.
Art Brodsky: Hollywood's Greed Makes April Fool's Joke Believable 2008
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