fenwaysouth posted:
My son and I were talking about this last weekend. We like Sabermetrics (numbers in general a lot ;-) so I'm inclined to latch onto Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) as the best metric to measure a pitcher. As noted in the article, it is used a lot by FanGraphs. I'm constantly looking at FanGraphs and Sabermetrics to fully understand all of their formulas and acronyms, but I think this one is pretty straight forward. JMO.
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.c...g-basic-sabermetrics
When I read this I realized I’d forgotten to qualify my original question. I often forget that everyone doesn’t take the name of this board as literally as I do, i.e. High School Baseball Web. My bad.
When I look at numbers I’m looking at HSV numbers. No matter how hard anyone tries, there’s no way to calculate a FIP constant at amateur levels, and that kind of destroys the value of the calculation. Keeping in mind my question is pointed at HS baseball or really any amateur level, would you care to take another shot at picking a metric? 