Trying to understand pitching stats.

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Jun 11, 2013
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It's walks+hits/ innings pitched. Essentially how many base runners you allow per inning.

What's good depends on what level you are playing. In the majors 1 is considered really good. I just looked at our team from 2 years ago stats when we had
a very good staff, but also played some really good teams and it was right at 1.5.
 
May 13, 2012
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This is what a big org coach told me for 15u and up. 1.7 to 2 your struggling, 1.4 or so to 1.6 your in the norm with majority, 1 to 1.3 your college material at some level, under one and your D1 material of some level. That was for our area and tourny strengths. Shift those numbers some for your area.
 
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I also like WHBF (Walks + Hits per batter faced) kinda the same measure just a little finer - I like to see this under 0.200 (0.250 = 1 hit/walk per inning)
 
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Thank you, is this a better stat to look at then era or just another one to gauge how your pitcher is doing? My daughter averaged 1.25 in last weekend's tournament in 14u.


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Jun 11, 2013
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Use FIP when measuring pitchers. If you use gamechanger it's already calculated.

Is FIP 13*HR+3BB-2k/IP +3.2?

So if you don't walk anybody strikeout 3 in one inning but let up 20 triples you have a perfect FIP score. That seems like more of a
majors stat when they let up a lot more HR's, but maybe I'm reading it wrong?

Legendsmom, that's a very good number.
 
Jun 14, 2016
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So what exactly does FIP measure. I looked it up on gamechanger but not sure what it means. Hers was 3.124.


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FIP = Fielding Independent Pitching.

Essentially it is a statistic that attempts to measure a pitcher's effectiveness without evaluating runs scored or defensive statistics. It relies mostly on innings pitched, home runs, walks, strike outs, etc.
 
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It just doesn't make a ton of sense to me in softball when you don't have fences on many fields. Defense can save (or cost) you on artificial turf fields. Or in the majors a sinkerball pitcher might get shelled but not let up a lot of HR. I'm not a pitching coach, but to me it means nothing.
 

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