STARTERS: Mid-season PQS targets
Jul 7 2013
The Pure Quality Start (PQS) method is a tool to analyze the skills posted by starting pitchers in each game they pitch. As a reminder, it differs from the traditional Quality Start method because it focuses on a SP's skills instead of surface stats such as earned runs.
Using this method, starts are assigned a score based on criteria that you can find in the PQS section of our glossary.
Those that measure a PQS-4/5 are DOMinant starts, whereas outings that rate as a PQS-0/1 are DISaster starts.
Reference our pre-season PQS trends & targets column for historical DOM% and DIS% by league.
Here is the distribution of PQS scores by league and PQS score so far in 2013:
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