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Excellent Lego Train Starter Set
This is a great set if you are looking to get started in the world of Lego trains. It comes with track, minifigs, power functions and so on, everything to get up and ...Read complete review
This is a great set if you are looking to get started in the world of Lego trains. It comes with track, minifigs, power functions and so on, everything to get up and running. This set is also a good parts sets. We bought Hogwarts Express, which is not motorized. We built a baggage car for Hogwarts Express and put the power functions from this passenger train into that. Now I have two happy boys. My six year old loves driving the Hogwarts, and my four year old loves pushing the passenger train around. This is a good, sturdy and fun train. Before we took out the power functions, we would pull this train up to the platform to pick up passengers. The fun part that the kids love is anyone can ride this train. Darth Vader, Spongebob, Harry Potter, pirates, knights, crooks, police and more have taken rides! Lego trains are great. You can setup the track quickly on the floor and get trains running quickly, or if you have the space, you can build a more permanent Lego display and have a train running through it. This train is sturdy, it has survived tip-overs and other crashes and general kid handling easily. The build is not too easy, not too hard. My six year old only needed help with a few things, mostly getting the power functions into place. About the only downfall with Lego trains is the requirement for 9 AAA batteries. First, you have to buy the batteries separately. While the batteries for the remote control will last for a long time, the six batteries in the train will drain more quickly. I suggest investing in Lego's rechargeable battery box or in rechargeable nickel-hydride batteries. My other complaints are minor. One more minifig would be nice. The set comes with three, but that seems lacking considering this is a passenger train. Also, the platform is basic. It has a nice printed route map piece, but it still seems lacking. Not a big deal to us, we spiced ours up a bit with pieces from our Lego collection. Overall, this is a great set for someone looking to get into Lego trains. If you already have Lego trains with power functions, this may not be the set you're looking for, unless you need it for parts (the Horizon Express is a better passenger train for those already into Lego trains).
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My gosh, this set stinks.
By Rambo
from billings
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All around great train
By Scott7893
from Undisclosed
I got this set one year for Christmas and I have liked it ever since. It looks sleek and real. I have the 4512 Cargo Train and I have to say this Passenger Train is better. I especially like the fact that it uses the Power Functions elements, which is great since that way it can be modified and expanded on. Also the engine is very powerful. And the flexible track that comes with it is awesome!
By hp
from Racine, WI
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
This is just the perfect gift for my little boy. I loved playing with Lego when I was a child, but today it is even better, and I want to be a child again.
"My Son's Dream Come True"
By boys2mom
from Shamong, NJ
About Me Education Oriented, Parent Of Two Or More Children
My son saved his money and gift cards for over a year to buy this train. He did not move from the island where he was building it for 4 hours. There are six bags of parts that come with 4 instruction manuals. In bag 4, one of the large red roof sections was not included. (NEVER HAPPENED WITH LEGO BEFORE)Son in tears, I called customer service and they offered a prompt solution. I was very impressed with the customer service rep., and the time it took to receive the missing piece. I will continue to order products online from "Toys R US".However I would like LEGO to find another way to power the train if possible because 9AAA batteries (6 in the engine, 3 in the remote)will go fast and the front engine must be partially disassembled to get to the battery compartment.
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Lego Passenger Train
By Dalekdoctor4
from Springfield
Soooooo cool and really fun. Nice and big! Easy to set it all up
(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Great set and tie in to Lego City Game
By Legouhme
Lifelong lego fan in his 30's, bought this for my sons 4th bday as he's gotten into the City sets BIG TIME since we got into Lego City Undercover on Nintendo Wii U. In the game you can get into the exact same train as conductor or passenger so when we got him this for his gift, along with the station, it blew his little mind. Reminds me of my original monorail set in that it's a great starter for the kids to learn remote controlling and battery operation.
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By ztron
from Fairfeild
As the title says, this set is amazing! This was my fist train and i love it. the set itself is pretty good, but it could use a little more track. other than that, i think it is an amazing deal.
(13 of 21 customers found this review helpful)
Pricey but super fun!
By Stoutarm
from Cary
I was really hesitant to buy the Passenger Train because of its price. Building the train was fun. Playing with the train is great. Buying the nine batteries was not fun. The train could definitely use a few more minifigures. I love how many minifigures can fit in the train. The speed of the train is great. I love how fast it can go. The worst part of the set is the lack of straight tracks. Very disappointed with that. If you don't mind spending the cheddar I recommend this set. Have fun.
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the most epic of them all
By rollypolly
from saint marys
i think the train is awesomeall though the engine is pretty hard to put together. i would not recommand to non advanced children.
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Following several recent statements, Cisco CEO John Chambers is making it abundantly clear that two Chinese telecom companies labeled "national security risks" by U.S. lawmakers are absolutely, positively no friends of his.
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Huawei's U.S. distributor, solution provider and BPO partners, including Synnex, Essintial Enterprise Solutions, Condre Storage and Communications Test Design, have all declined to comment or have not responded to CRN requests for comment.
Chambers and Cisco did not comment specifically on the House Intelligence committee report, though Chambers and other executives have been relentless in attempting to paint the company as unethical and untrustworthy.
The two companies have a long and contentious history. Cisco sued Huawei in 2002 for alleged patent infringement, agreeing to settle the lawsuit out of court two years later after Huawei, according to Cisco, agreed to change its command line interfaces, user manuals and portions of its source code for a number of products Cisco says it had ripped off.
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Anthony J. "Tony" Fedyn, 83, of Superior passed away Monday Jan. 14, 2013 in St. Luke's Hospital, Duluth after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
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At the Museum of Sex in New York City, artificial-intelligence researcher David Levy projected a mock image on a screen of a smiling bride in a wedding dress holding hands with a short robot groom. "Why not marry a robot? Look at this happy couple," he said to a chuckling crowd.
When Levy was then asked whether anyone who would want to marry a robot was deluded, his face grew serious. "If the alternative is that you are lonely and sad and miserable, is it not better to find a robot that claims to love you and acts like it loves you?" Levy responded. "Does it really matter, if you're a happier person?" In his 2007 book, Love and Sex with Robots, Levy contends that sex, love and even marriage between humans and robots are coming soon and, perhaps, are even desirable. "I know some people think the idea is totally outlandish," he says. "But I am totally convinced it's inevitable."
The 62-year-old London native has not reached this conclusion on a whim. Levy's academic love affair with computing began in his last year of university, during the vacuum-tube era. That is when he broadened his horizons beyond his passion for chess. "Back then people wrote chess programs to simulate human thought processes," he recalls. He later became engrossed in writing programs to carry on intelligent conversations with people, and then he explored the way humans interact with computers, a topic for which he earned his doctorate last year from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. (Levy was sidetracked from a Ph.D. when he became an international master at chess, which led him to play around the world and to found several computer and chess organizations and businesses.)
Over the decades, Levy notes, interactions between humans and robots have become increasingly personal. Whereas robots initially found work, say, building cars in a factory, they have now moved into the home in the form of Roomba the robotic vacuum cleaner and digital pets such as Tamagotchis and the Sony Aibo.
And the machines can adopt a decidedly humanoid look: the robot Repliee from Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of Osaka University's Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, can fool people into believing that it is a real person for about 10 seconds from a few feet away. And "it's just a matter of time before someone takes parts from a vibrator, puts it into a doll, and maybe adds some basic speech electronics, and then you'll have a fairly primitive sex robot," Levy remarks.
Science-fiction fans have witnessed plenty of action between humans and characters portraying artificial life-forms, such as with Data from the Star Trek franchise or the Cylons from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. And Levy is betting that a lot of people will fall in love with such devices. Programmers can tailor the machines to match a person's interests or render them somewhat disagreeable to create a desirable level of friction in a relationship. "It's not that people will fall in love with an algorithm but that people will fall in love with a convincing simulation of a human being, and convincing simulations can have a remarkable effect on people," he says.
Indeed, a 2007 study from the University of California, San Diego, found that toddlers grew to accept a two-foot-tall humanoid robot named QRIO after it responded to the children who touched it. Eventually the kids considered QRIO as a near equal, even covering it with a blanket and telling it "night night" when its batteries ran out. "People who grow up with all sorts of electronic gizmos will find android robots to be fairly normal as friends, partners, lovers," Levy speculates. He also cites 2005 research from Stanford University that showed people grew to like and trust computer personalities that cared about their wins and losses in blackjack and were generally supportive, much as they would respond to being cared about by other people.


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- This weapon has an off-hand variant.
Release date | 26 July 2001 (Update) |
Members? | No |
Quest item? | No |
Tradeable? | Yes |
Lendable? | Yes |
Equipable? | Yes |
Stackable? | No |
High Alch | 15,360 coins |
Low Alch | 10,240 coins |
Destroy | Drop |
Store price | Not sold |
Exchange price | 14,951 coins (info) |
Buy limit | 100 |
Examine | A vicious, curved sword. |
Weight | 1.8 kg |
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The rune scimitar is the strongest non-degradable scimitar available to free players (only the degradable corrupt dragon scimitar is stronger). Like all rune weapons, it requires 50 Attack to wield. Players can make a rune scimitar with a Smithing level of 90 using 2 rune bars, giving the player 150 Smithing experience.
Before the Evolution of Combat, the Rune scimitar was viewed as the superior weapon compared to the Rune longsword. The scimitar had more damage over time as a result of the increased attack speed, making it a more efficient training weapon than the longsword. This made it one of the most popular and most used non-members weapons in the game.
The rune scimitar was commonly used in PvP Combat in free-to-play. With the Evolution of Combat release, however, the rune scimitar's popularity in player killing situations is dwindling because all other one-handed rune weapons offer the same damage per second, with the Rune mace also offering a Prayer bonus along with the same damage and attack speed of the scimitar, only differing with its crushing attack style (which does not matter in PvP). The rune 2h sword also offers far superior damage per second to the scimitar and use of two-handed abilities that the scimitar cannot use, at the cost of the inability to use a shield.
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Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity Mummy 100, 106, 110 1 Uncommon Zamorak warrior 88, 94 1 Uncommon Cockroach soldier 52 1 Rare Fire giant 122 1 Rare Ninja impling N/A (Hunter) 1 Rare Monkey Knife fighter N/A (Thieving) 1 Rare Locust rider 68,98,106 1 Very rare
Levels 100 and aboveEdit
Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity K'ril Tsutsaroth 210 1 Common Mummy 100, 106, 110 1 Uncommon Skeleton brute 126 1 Uncommon Angry barbarian spirit 152 1 Uncommon Berserk barbarian spirit 152 1 Uncommon Enraged barbarian spirit 152 1 Uncommon Ferocious barbarian spirit 152 1 Uncommon Mutated bloodveld 112, 116 1 Rare Skeleton hero 149 1 Rare Skeleton heavy 128 1 Rare Skeleton thug 122 1 Rare Skeleton warlord 130 1 Rare Mature grotworm 120 1 Rare Locust rider 68,98,106 1 Very rare
- On 28 July 2009, the Animation Pack 1 update changed the appearance and attack animations of the Rune Scimitar in order to make combat look more realistic, This was done with the godswords, the dragon scimitar, the rune and dragon longswords, and the abyssal whip.
- On 23 July 2009, five days before the scheduled update, the Rune scimitar image in the Grand Exchange database was replaced by the new model. Players found the image and posted about it in the RuneScape Forums, making it widely known before Jagex removed the image a few hours later. Five days later, the image was once again put up along with the official release.
- Before the Evolution of Combat, the rune scimitar was one of the most common, if not the most common, weapons in the F2P game due to its popularity in the F2P PKing community. After the launch of the EoC, however, many F2P PKers began switching to the cheaper rune mace because it provides a +4 Prayer bonus and has the same stats and attack speed as the scimitar. The lack of monsters with a slash weakness in the non-members game is also contributing to its drop in popularity. Nevertheless, due to the reputation it has gained before the EoC, it is still a fairly common sight among free players.
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Tue, Nov 20, 2012 | 14:09 GMT
Wii games played on Wii U reportedly look much better when played on HDTV
Wii U owners are reporting that when playing Wii games on their new console via an HDTV with 1080p display resolution, the game actually look better – which is good news for those who've amassed quite a large Wii library over the years. While the backwards compatible console doesn't render older games in 1080p, Wii U will upscale the games in the same manner as a decent HDTV line. While the games won't contain as much detail as the newer Wii U offerings, rough edges are smoothed and few touch ups will at least be applied. In short, your Wii games may not look "as good" as your Wii U games on your spankingly nice TV, but they won't look horrible either, and that's a good thing. Via: NeoGAF, CVG.
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Banjo's text too tiny for SDTVs, but Rare refuses to fix it
How tough is it to scatter readable text throughout a game? According to Rare, it's like pulling teeth. From an enraged bear. Thus, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts' under-sized utterances likely won't be going up a font size – at least, not within the foreseeable future. Said Rare community manager George Kelion, in a post on NeoGAF:
"Unfortunately, this is an issue that doesn't look like it will get changed. I don't want to bore you with the technical side of things (I really don't understand it all myself), but the long and the short of it is that the text you see in the demo will be the same as that which you find in the retail version of the game."
The main reason? Apparently, Rare's resource well just can't dribble out the needed funds.
"I'm sorry that we weren't able to address this issue as nothing would please us more than turning all your complaints into gleeful responses, but it's simply something that's too expensive in terms of time, resources and money to alter."
We're not really sure what to make of this. A Microsoft-owned second-party with plenty of previous HD-generation experience? Dead Rising this ain't.
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Sandy belongs to: Cullercoats RNLI & The Coble and Keelboat Society
Sandy was born in North Shields. At the age of 16 he began his maritime training and went to sea at 18. He is Lifeboat Visits Officer for Cullercoats RNLI and a member of the Coble and Keelboat Society.
Sandy was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 9 December 2005. The interview took place at Discovery Museum People's Gallery and lasted 46 minutes and 7 seconds.
Ships in bottles
"Well, Its an ancient hobby. I suppose sailors have been putting ships in bottles since time began, almost"
Well, Its an ancient hobby. I suppose sailors have been putting ships in bottles since time began, almost. But from a Captains point of view, the bottles come free because the ship owner provides them with the necessary bottles of this and that to oil the wheels of commerce as you go from port to port, when the customers are in here and the Officers are coming down, so I always had plenty of empty bottles, and the wood is easily obtained. All the bits of wood lying around and the carpenter used to give me the putty to make the sea and the bosun gave me the paint to paint them and the sails were made from old charts, the radio officer provided the bits of wire to make the masts and so it was a very economical hobby and that used to keep me busy and out of mischief. I think I made, Im up to the number of 78 now, Ive made nearly 80 over that 50 years.
Sandy has 19 memories in the memorynet:
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- Loading cargo in Ghana
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A Season on the Brink: D'Antoni Out in New York
Less than a month ago, on Sunday, February 19th, the Knicks knocked off the defending-champion Dallas Mavericks in an afternoon matinee at MSG. It was their eighth win in nine games. After falling into an 8-15 hole to start the 2011-2012 season, New York had finally climbed back to .500 with that win over the Mavs. Jeremy Lin carried the Knicks, scoring 28 points and dishing out 14 assists. Linsanity was at its absolute apex. The crowd was electric every time the Knicks took the floor. Head Coach Mike D'Antoni was joyous and joking with the media after wins. The future looked beautifully bright.
After a decade of darkness, with very little promise or optimism inside Madison Square Garden for the better part of 10 long years, it appeared as if Knicks fans finally had a reason to smile.
New York had finally found a point guard to run D'Antoni's system and the offense was humming. And, shockingly, thanks in large part to defensive dynamo Tyson Chandler, the team was playing stellar on the defensive end as well. The Mavericks were the 10th straight opponent the Knicks had held under 100 points; something which hadn't happened since Larry Brown was coach.
Better yet, the cavalry was coming… Carmelo Anthony, who had missed the previous eight games nursing a nagging groin injury, was set to return to the lineup. The Knicks were going to add one of the league's elite scorers to a team that had recently run off a seven-game win streak. In addition, Amar'e Stoudemire had missed four of those contests after the tragic death of his brother in a car accident, would hopefully knock the rust off and round back into shape.
This team had the potential to be scary good. Pundits across the country were in near universal agreement; this Knicks squad – if everybody remained healthy and they were able to get on the same page – was arguably the only team in the Eastern Conference that could challenge favorites Miami or Chicago.
It appeared the Knicks were on the precipice of a special season and exciting playoff run.
Instead, they were actually on the edge of cliff. The rapid freefall from cheerful optimism and excitement to downright despair was astonishingly fast.
There was light at the end of the tunnel… turns out it was an oncoming train.
On Wednesday afternoon, March 14, (just 24 days after that victory over the Mavericks) news broke that Mike D'Antoni has resigned. Well, technically phrase being bandied about right now is that team and the coach " mutually " decided to part ways. Either way, D'Antoni is out. The lunacy and circus-like atmosphere that has perpetually surrounded this franchise remains.
That big win over the Dallas Mavericks was less than a month ago, but it seems like a lifetime. In that context, the hopefulness that enveloped New York City when the Knicks acquired Carmelo Anthony prior to the trade deadline last February, feels as though it was forever ago.
Today began with an onslaught of competing Carmelo-related articles in all the major NYC dailies and other major news outlets across the country. It was clear, regardless of whom the blame was pinned on, tension and discord within the Knicks locker room had reached a boiling point. Today's resignation was a by-product of what had become an untenable situation.
Fair or not, much of the heat will now be focused solely on Carmelo. The New York Post's story this morning inferred that Melo issued a "him or me" edict, inferring that either D'Antoni had to go or Melo would request a trade. Melo quickly and vociferously denied this accusation after this morning's practice, but that part of the story will be brushed aside and the popular perception will paint Melo as the villain.
Anthony already had been bashed in the press over the past two weeks, receiving the lion's share of blame as the Knicks dropped eight of 10 and fell into 9th place in the East. A team many predicted would challenge for the Eastern Conference crown, now finds themselves on the outside of the out of the playoff picture looking in.
In fairness, it certainly wasn't all Melo's fault. For instance, the schedule the Knicks faced had a lot to do with their February win streak and the corresponding Linsanity. Consider this: The cumulative record (at the time NY played them) of the teams the Knicks beat during their seven-game February win streak was 83-108 (.434%). In contrast, the cumulative record of the opponents New York has played in their last seven losses is 159-103 (.606% winning percentage); this current slump book-ended by losses to the HEAT in Miami and the Bulls in Chicago.
Nonetheless, Melo brought a lot of this drama on himself. His defensive effort has been poor, and his body language much worse. Whether it was barking at teammates for not receiving the ball when he clapped for it, or sitting outside of the team huddle with a towel draped over his head, Anthony made it difficult for even his staunchest supporters to excuse some of his antics. Fans can live with missed shots. They won't tolerate halfhearted effort on a nightly basis.
The rumors that D'Antoni never wanted Melo in the first place (instead preferring Gallinari, Felton, Wilson Chandler, and Mozgov) began to surface once again.
The Knicks positive momentum had come to a screeching halt. The enthusiasm that had spiked in February, had been effectively eviscerated.
The head coach had had enough.
Now that D'Antoni has departed, the Knicks are once again rudderless.
In this most unpredictable of seasons, it's anyone's best guess as to what lies ahead in New York…


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KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Chris Perez scored 19 points, including a last-minute three-point play, to lead Stetson over Kennesaw State 70-60 Wednesday night in Atlantic Sun action. Stetson scored the last 10 points to hand Kennesaw State (1-13, 0-2) its 12th straight loss. Stetson (4-9, 1-1) led 56-46, but the Owls' 8-0 run pulled them within 56-54 on a layup by Aaron Anderson. When Myles Hamilton stuck a jumper with 1:29 left, it was tied 60-60. But Stetson rebuffed the rally. Adam Pegg (14 points) converted a 3-point play. After an Owls' miss, Perez completed his three-point play with 0:36 remaining. Two free throws by Joel Naburgs with 0:19 left clinched it. Stetson had a 3-point advantage, hitting 8 of 15 treys while Kennesaw State made 3 of 16. Stetson shot 25 for 41 (61 percent) from the floor, Kennesaw State 24 for 61 (39.3 percent). Markeith Cummings led the Owls with 19 points.
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Another Look at DIPS
by JC BradburyMay 24, 2005
The discovery of Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS) theory by Voros McCracken dramatically changed the way we evaluate pitchers. DIPS theory rests on the premise that the stats a pitcher generates without the help of his fielders contain nearly all of the information needed to predict pitcher success; therefore, knowing a pitcher's tendency to allow hits on balls in play tells us very little. The strong-form of the argument (preventing hits on balls in play is not a skill) is not held by all, but the weak form (typically, pitchers have very little skill in preventing balls in play) has strong support within the sabermetric community. I decided to take a closer look at DIPS focusing on recent baseball history, and in this article I present what I found. Though many of my results mirror old findings, I did find a few interesting things along the way.
I'm going to separate my analysis into two parts. First, I analyze the predictive power of DIPS. Sabermetricians use DIPS to predict performances of players in the future and to judge players in the present. Forecasting systems rely heavily on DIPS for obvious reasons, and an in-season ERA predicted via DIPS metrics (such as FIP) lets us judge how well a pitcher is currently performing without the noise of ERA. Second, I dig a little deeper to examine how much control, if any, pitchers have over hits on balls in play.
Part I: Repeatable Performance as a Measure of Skill
Simple CorrelationsWhat can we learn about a pitcher from his stats from year-to-year? My first step in answering this question was to determine the correlation of individual pitching metrics over time. The stronger the correlation, the more likely it is that the statistic is useful in predicting future performance. A repeated performance from season-to-season may also indicate some individual skill possessed by the pitcher in this area. So, I estimated the season-to-season correlations of ERA (park-corrected using 3-year pitcher park factors), strikeout-rate (K9), walk-rate (BB9), home run-rate (HR9), and batting average on balls in play (BABIP) --- all rates are per 9 innings. I looked at seasons from 1980-2004 in which pitchers threw more than 100 innings for two consecutive seasons as my sample. This gave me over 500 pitchers and more than 2000 pitcher seasons to examine.
The scatter plots below each include a regression line indicating the best fit of the impact of the previous year's stat on the current year's stat. The R2 tells us the percent of the change in the current year's stat that can be explained by that same statistic from the previous year. The first stat is the most common one used to evaluate pitchers: ERA.
It's obvious to see why sabermetricians have been down on ERA for so long. Without the regression line it would be hard to tell if there was much of a relationship at all. We know that good pitchers tend to have good ERAs from year-to-year, and the opposite with bad pitchers, but for nailing down precisely how good or bad a pitcher will be from year-to-year, ERA is not very helpful. The ERA from the previous season explained only about 13% of variance of the following season's ERA. Next, I moved on to the seeming source of the problem: BABIP.
If pitchers don't have much ability to prevent hits on balls in play, the correlation across seasons should be weak, and the R2 of 0.06 seems to support this central tenet of DIPS. From the season-to-season correlation, pitchers did not seem to have much special ability to prevent hits on balls-in-play. It's interesting to note that the reported R2 is generated from a bare bones regression that does not control from some important omitted factors. One particular factor, the defense behind a player that doesn't change teams, is probably heavily biasing that paltry 6% upwards. Next, I examined the holy trinity of DIPS: strikeouts, walks, and home runs.
Everyone evaluates pitchers by strikeouts, and they should. No variable produced by pitchers had more constancy over time than the strikeout-rate. The strikeout-rate from the previous year explained over 60% of the variance of the following year's strikeout-rate. What about walks?
Though walks from season-to-season were not as predicable as strikeouts, the correlation was quite strong, with an R2 of 0.42. And homers?
Well, the correlation for home runs was about half of what it was for walks, but the recent past revealed nearly twice as much about the future for home runs than it did for plain old ERA.
So far, DIPS theory seems to hold up quite well. In fact, compared to McCracken's initial estimates, the correlations are quite similar. But, so what if some metrics are more correlated than others over time? Strikeout-rates may be strongly correlated from season-to-season, but what impact do they have on pitcher run prevention? Next, I wanted to see the impact of each metric on predicting ERA. Again, I found that DIPS theory contains some powerful truths.
Using DIPS to Predict ERA in the Present
In order to figure out the ability of DIPS to predict future ERA I needed to establish a baseline impact for these stats during a current season on the current ERA of the pitcher. I employed a linear regression technique to estimate the impact of different pitching statistics on ERA. This technique is designed to handle many problems of multiple observations of individuals over time -- the regression results were estimated using random effects and corrected for first-order serial correlation.
To begin, I estimated the impact of the big-3 (K9, BB9, HR9), plus the hit-batter-rate (HBP9) DIPS components and BABIP, on ERA, while controlling for the defense of the team, the age of the pitcher , the league of the pitcher, and the season. I used the pitcher's team seasonal BABIP to proxy defense, assumed the impact of age on ERA to be U-shaped (quadratic), and used indicator variables equal to 1 or 0 to identify the league and year in which the pitcher's stats were posted. Here are the unit and percentage impacts of the variables on a pitchers ERA (again, park-corrected).
Table 1. The Impact of Current Season's Peripheral Stats on ERAStat Unit Percentage K91 -0.17 -0.24% BB91 0.30 0.23% HR91 1.42 0.32% HBP91 0.34 0.02% BABIP1 18.56 1.31% R2 = 0.77 Superscripts for levels of statistical significance: |
Differences in the variables regression, as a whole, explained 77% of the variance of pitcher ERAs, which is quite good. All of the estimated impacts were "statistically significant," meaning there is less than a 5% chance that these variables have no effect on ERA.
The thing I find most interesting about these estimates is how well they correlated with linear weight values for these events. Walks, HBPs, and home runs were in line with linear weights. Strikeouts were a little low, but close; however, this estimate was for earned run prevention. Strikeouts ought to have some additional run-suppressing impact on unearned runs that may account for the difference. The large impact of BABIP is quite interesting. A standard deviation increase in BABIP (.023) raised a pitcher's ERA by about 0.43 (approximately 10% of the average ERA for the sample). If pitchers have little effect over balls in play, then a random fluctuation of BABIP can influence a pitcher's ERA quite a bit. I'm quite happy with these estimates, and they provide a fine baseline to evaluate how well the DIPS statistics predict future run prevention.
Using DIPS to Predict ERA in the Future
Predicting an ERA from a pitcher's statistics from the prior season was not much different from the exercise above. All of the estimates reported below were estimated using the previous season's K9, BB9, HR9, and BABIP, while the defense, age, and league control variables were from the current year.
Table 2. The Impact of Previous Season's Peripheral Stats on ERAStat Unit Percentage K91 -0.18 -0.25% BB91 0.13 0.10% HR91 0.18 0.04% BABIP 1 -1.96 -0.14% R2 = 0.30 |
The result for strikeouts is quite interesting. The previous year's strikeout-rate impacted the current season's ERA about as much as the current season's strikeout-rate (see Table 1 for comparison). This is not totally surprising, because strikeouts were strongly correlated from year-to-year, but I did not expect such a strong relationship. While walks and homers were important, they were not as consistent predictors of ERA as strikeouts.
BABIP had a statistically significant impact on ERA, but the effect was small and in the opposite direction that one would expect. Rather than thinking there is some inverse relationship between BABIP from year-to-year, this is more likely derived from a few extremely high and low BABIP seasons that typically regress to the mean the following year. When I estimated the model using a median regression technique that minimizes the impact of extreme values, BABIP was no longer statistically significant.
But how does the DIPS prediction stand up to a prediction based on the previous season's ERA? Quite well.
Table 3. The Impact of Previous Season's ERA on Current Season's ERAStat Unit Percentage Lag ERA 0.005 0.0045% R2 = 0.18 |
Table 4. The Impact of Previous Season's Peripheral Stats and ERA on the Current Season's ERA Stat Unit Percentage ERA1 -0.11 -0.11% K91 -0.19 -0.19% BB91 0.15 0.11% HR91 0.26 0.06% BABIP -0.68 -0.05% R2 = 0.29 |
So, when it came to predicting pitching success, DIPS contained the most consistent information. This is no shock. But, I'm not sure if these findings necessarily mean pitchers do not have control over balls in play. I'll explain why in Part II.
Part II: Pitcher Control Over Hits on Balls in Play
Now that I have confirmed the predictive value of DIPS, there is another question to answer. Is it possible that pitchers do have the ability to affect hits on balls in play, but that this influence is so strongly correlated with the DIPS that it is masked? Multiple regression analysis identifies a correlation between the predicting and predicted variables included in the model, but it does not tell us why. If a pitcher strikes out a lot of batters it does not necessarily mean that the corresponding effect on ERA comes solely through the direct impact of strikeouts. The correlation between strikeouts and ERA could reflect a pitcher's ability to affect hits on balls in plays in addition to the direct effect on limiting balls in play. If strikeout pitchers cause weak groundouts and walk-prone pitchers serve up more line drives, these factors will be captured in the weights assigned to strikeouts and walks in a multiple regression estimation.For all practical purposes, this possibility is irrelevant -- if DIPS tells us all we need to know about run prevention, it doesn't matter why -- but I wanted to see if it was true. First, I estimated the impact of the DIPS components on a pitcher's BABIP in the same season.
Table 5. The Impact of Current Season's Peripheral Stats on BABIPStat Unit Percentage K9 -0.0004 -0.0087% BB95 0.0011 0.0114% HR9 -0.0014 -0.0044% HBP9 -0.0005 -0.0004% R2 = 0.28 |
What about the possibility of all of the DIPS from the previous year influencing the present year's BABIP? Maybe, the previous year's BABIP doesn't give us much information about the following year's BABIP, but the DIPS do because they are correlated with a pitcher's ability to affect hits on balls in play. If this is the case, then it's possible for a pitcher to control BABIP through his DIPS. And in a multivariate regression on ERA, like I ran in Part I, the effect would be captured by the DIPS variables. Therefore, I estimated the impact of the previous year's pitching statistics on the following season's BABIP.
Table 6. The Impact of Previous Season's Peripheral Stats on BABIPStat Unit Percentage K91 -0.00172 -0.035% BB9 0.00013 0.001% HR95 -0.00347 -0.011% BABIP5 -0.04148 -0.041% R2 = 0.30 |
Looking at the numbers over and over and over again, it becomes clear that a pitchers strikeout rate during a single season is a bit better predictor of his hits in play the following year than his own hits per balls in play. This is there and it's real.
And on home runs he states,
While a shaky relationship, it appears that the more Home Runs a pitcher gives up, the fewer hits per balls in play he gives up.
The effect for strikeouts seems a bit obvious. The fear of strikeouts possibly induces hitters to take weaker protective swings to stay alive, and thus yields softer hits that are more likely to result in outs. The effect of home runs seems a bit counterintuitive at first, but it's capturing the effect of the ground-ball-to-fly-ball ratio. Pitchers who give up more fly balls are likely to give up home runs, but also produce more outs, as fly balls are more likely to yield outs than ground balls.
But just because something is statistically significant does not mean it is practically significant. Using the estimate of the impact of the predicting variables reported in Table 6 and my earlier estimate of the impact of BABIP on ERA (18.56) in Table 1, I was able to assign an earned run value to strikeout and home run prevention through balls in play. The effect of home runs on BABIP is very small (just as McCracken found) so I won't discuss it further, but the impact of strikeouts was large enough to continue investigating. For every one-strikeout increase per game, the BABIP decreases by 0.00172. Multiply that by 18.56 and every strikeout is worth 0.03 earned runs per game. That's small, right? Well, yes and no. Let's use Randy Johnson's 2004 as an example.
In 2004, Randy Johnson struck out 10.6 batters per game. According to the estimates above, this rate would lower Johnson's expected 2005 BABIP by 0.018 (10.6 x 0.00172 = 0.018) and his ERA by 0.34 (18.56 x 0.018 = 0.34); an impact on earned run prevention equal to about two additional strikeouts (2 x 0.17 = 0.34) according to the estimate in Table 1. This translates to 9.3 earned runs saved on decreasing hits on balls in play over the number of innings he pitched in 2004 (0.34 x [245.67/9] = 9.3), which is 13% of his 2004 total of 71 earned runs.
A pitcher with the average strikeout-rate for the sample would gain the ERA benefit of about one extra strikeout per game through his effect on BABIP. This would lower his predicted ERA by 0.18 and result in 3.25 fewer earned runs a season (about 4%). Johnson saves approximately 6 earned runs per season more than the average strikeout pitcher through his ability to prevent hits on balls in play. That is a very real effect. So, why doesn't BABIP correlate very well from year-to-year when strikeouts do? Well, there's just a lot more noise generated by random bounces from year-to-year in BABIP than there is in strikeouts.
The effect that pitchers have over hits on balls in play is small compared to the effects of the other DIPS metrics; however, it is large enough to tell us that pitchers do have the ability to prevent hits on balls in play. So where does this leave us? Well, it turns out that though pitchers do seem to have the ability to prevent hits on balls in play, it does not alter the predictive element DIPS theory one bit. Why not? Because that ability is captured in DIPS statistics. Those who are comfortable evaluating pitchers using DIPS can continue to feel comfortable doing so.
These findings also fit with some recent research by Tom Tippett. In Can Pitchers Prevent Hits on Balls in Play?, Tippett looks at a rather large sample of pitchers' BABIP over their careers and finds that several pitchers seemed to have had a consistent impact over hits on balls in play. It would be an interesting project to see how much of this difference is predicted by pitcher strikeout rates.
In summary, DIPS is right. Knowing DIPS can tell you more about a pitcher's future performance than his previous ERA. While pitchers may have some ability to prevent hits on balls in play, the effect is small. And any effect a pitcher does have is reflected within DIPS metrics. Other studies have shown that pitchers do seem to be able to influence certain hit-types, such as ground balls, fly balls, and line drives, but the effect of these tendencies on run-prevention is ambiguous. And it may be that these tendencies may be correlated with DIPS. As new hit-type data comes in this year to The Hardball Times, hopefully, the impact of hit-type on run prevention will become clearer.
References and Resources
For a list of links relating to DIPS research on the Internet visit Jay Jaffe's Defense Independent Pitching Statistics for 2004 page at Futility Infielder.
I wish to thank Studes and Greg Tamer for excellent suggestions.
JC Bradbury runs the weblog Sabernomics: Economic Thinking about Baseball. You can contact him with your comments and questions via e-mail.


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I do not think intergration is needed for what I want. I may have to ask at phpnuke site also.
My game clan decided to update the site and phpnuke was an easy alternative for our needs. The only accounts in Nuke is that of the few people that do the web admin stuff. Absolutely no user accounts. (we've modified everything to take that away) So no need to get information from SMF.
The SMF forum is also fine the way it is. I do not need any information from the nuke site.
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The top link "Form" is to open iSMF in a new window. The link Forum NUKE is my attemp using iframe to get SMF to appear within nuke. (IF I can get it to work within, the top forum link will be removed)
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Try adding style="overflow:auto" to the iframe tag. That should make scrollbars appear.
iFrames are generally more of a nuisance than anything. Try using php includes or regular frames.
Thank you. I'll go look about those now and see if I can manage to get one to work.
The style overflow didn't work.
Hopefully I'll have time later, or this weekend, to try the other two you suggested.
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Brand: | OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
Camera: | Olympus E-620 Check out Olympus Image Space! |
Lens: | Lensbaby Composer/Sweet-35/stacked 4x close-up filter |
Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
Date Taken: | 4 Mar 2012 - 3:18 PM |
Lens Max Aperture: | f/1.0 |
Aperture: | f/2.5 |
Shutter Speed: | 1/80sec |
Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
Exposure Mode: | Manual |
Metering Mode: | Center-weighted average |
Flash: | No Flash |
White Balance: | Auto |
Title: | One |
Username: | AnneWorner |
Uploaded: | 20 Nov 2012 - 12:54 AM |
Tags: | Close-up / macro, Flowers & plants, General, Nasella leucotricha, Texas Wintergrass |
Votes: | 48 |
Expertly done, Anne, beautiful photographic art.
A real touch of class great work it's a very well captured imaged.
This is so beautiful, so fragile. I love your LB plant images, they're special.
A very beautiful and artistic piece of work, Anne, like it a lot
My day took a turn for "busy" - started out nicely, then quickly accelerated - I've just come back home and must go out again.
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I will visit with you later
So delicate and dainty - lovely colours and movement Ann
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