and other tournaments. But he has little involvement in baseball analysis. Jeff Passan has written, Of course, one great idea guarantees nothing. Not prominence. McCracken spends his days and nights analyzing European soccer. He won't say for what or whom or where. The client appreciates anonymity. Wealth is absent, too. McCracken lives paycheck to paycheck. He couldn't make rent on his apartment last year. "If I give DIPS away for free once, that's fine," he says. "I came up with an idea that was monetized to the hundreds of millions of dollars, and I'm broke. I'm glad I did it. Can't do it anymore. I've done enough to prove I can at least do something. Boy, that's a revolutionary idea that changed baseball. Can you do it again? No. I can't do it again unless you pay me”. And there's the deepest, most hurtful part of all: Voros McCracken hasn't worked in baseball since the game chewed him up and spit him out five years ago. In an industry where progress moves by the inch, the man who sent it forward a mile can't get a job. And he's not quite sure why. As of March 2017, McCracken worked for the Chicago White Sox. Legacy While still doing sports analysis, including occasional publications on such media as ESPN.com, his major legacy is the revolution that he helped to bring to the statistical analysis of major league baseball. In a 2011 article titled "Voros McCracken changed the world," baseball writer Jeff Passan wrote:A decade after Baseball Prospectus let McCracken spread the gospel in a story that popularized DIPS across the sport, it remains among the most seminal theories developed by sabermetrics, the nickname given to quantitative baseball study. It's almost certainly the most revolutionary. Nothing before or since has so upended an entire line of thought and forced teams to assess a wide breadth of players in a different fashion.For a commentary on McCracken by Rob Neyer, introducing Passan's article, see Rob Neyer, "Voros McCracken changed the game," ESPN.com, January 25, 2011. See also Defense-Independent ERA Defense Independent Pitching Statistics Sabermetrics References External links VorosMcCracken.com Baseball Digest Daily McCracken's Former Home Page DIPS Intro (1999) Pitching and Defense: How Much Control Do Hurlers Have? (2001) Mailbag: Pitching and Defense (2001) Neyer columns on DIPS (2001) DIPS Version 2.0 (2002) DIPS Version 2.0 Formula (2002) DIPS and its correlation with ERA for