HEAD-TO-HEAD: Avoiding PQS-DISasters

Introduction

In 2012, Jeanmar Gómez (RHP, PIT) started seventeen games. 53% of these games ended in PQS-DISasters. In a head-to-head league, some of his performances (i.e. allowing 8 earned runs on May 9 against the White Sox) could single-handedly destroy your team’s ERA and WHIP for a given week. Simply put, Gomez was a roster bomb. 

Head-to-head players need to avoid rostering bombs at all costs.  Gomez’s middling Dom (5.2) didn’t do him any favors. However, Bronson Arroyo (RHP, CIN) only had a slightly higher Dom (5.7) and he had a PQS-DIS% rate (9%) that was over five times lower than Gomez’s. Moreover, Arroyo’s PQS-DOM% of 50% was more than four times higher than Gomez’s 12% PQS-DOM%.  In retrospect, was there a way to avoid...

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