The complete Defense Independent Pitching Statistics for 2003 are now available at the link above. I didn’t invent DIPS (Voros McCracken did), I haven’t improved it (except by using actual Batters Faced Pitching instead of estimating, as Voros did a few years ago), and I’m not here to spend time defending it (I’ll leave that to the discussion boards). But I’ve done the heavy lifting of the data (thanks to a spreadsheet from Baseball Graphs), and the formatting as well, and that gruntwork is my small contribution to the field.

Along with the data, I have provided several new links in my brief introduction, including articles by Tom Tippett of Diamond Mind Baseball, discussions on Baseball Primer’s Primate Studies, a very good DIPS article index by James Fraser, and a way-cool worksheet by Larry Mahnken of Replacement Level Yankees Weblog. Enjoy!

UPDATE: Since publishing the article last night, I’ve gone back and done some correlation testing to compare with McCracken’s results, and significantly revised the article to reflect that.