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Friday, October 01, 2010

Visual Baseball:  Introducing AfterGlow

Posted by Kevin Dame
Happy Friday. Here's a new visual that I'd like to take for a spin today. It's pretty simple, plotting a team's trajectory over the last five seasons in terms of runs scored and run allowed. Here's a sneak peek at a team that has been heading in the wrong direction for several years. During the next week I can share more AfterGlow visuals as a way of previewing MLB's eight playoff teams. A simple "more" will do...

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"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." - Edward Tufte.

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Comments

J-Doug said...

Big fan of this—can’t wait to see it for other teams.

Also, didn’t know anyone was still using Chicago as a typeface anymore.

Posted 10/01  at  08:11 AM
Dave Studeman said...

Cool.  Basically a time series of the runs scored/allowed graphic I use in the Graphical Report and THT Annual.  (Buy yours now!)

Posted 10/01  at  08:41 AM
Jeff said...

Anything combining baseball and Tufte is a good thing. More!

Posted 10/01  at  09:26 AM
t ball said...

More, please.

Posted 10/01  at  11:24 AM
Detroit Michael said...

Does it adjust for the league wide decrease in offense?

Posted 10/01  at  12:49 PM
MikeS said...

More.

Posted 10/01  at  02:25 PM
Evan Brunell said...

Love it. Think it should cover more years, though.

Posted 10/01  at  05:16 PM
J-Doug said...

@Detroit Michael: I would assume the stats are adjusted for league and park, so yes (even though the decline in offense from 2009-2010 isn’t really out of the ordinary).

Also, Kevin’s chart reminds me of the map Tufte always holds up as an example of excellent graphical presentation, the one that depicts Napoleon’s invasion and retreat from Russia: http://mappery.com/maps/Napoleon’s-Invasion-of-Russia-Map.mediumthumb.png

Posted 10/01  at  05:48 PM
Jeffrey Gross said...

Oh wow this is cool! I was going to do a 10-year team WAR splits chart during the winter, but I’ll defer to this!

Great work

Posted 10/01  at  06:58 PM
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