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Friday, September 10, 2010

Visual Baseball:  A new look at the standings

Posted by Kevin Dame
Happy Friday. Here's an attempt to look at the major league standings in a different way. Features include teams plotted vertically by win percentage and team payroll depicted by circle size. Within each division I've selected one team whose payroll is closest to league average (depicted with a solid black line).

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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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DSMok1 said...

That is really cool.

Posted 09/10  at  08:59 AM
Jason B said...

Houston is stil closest to league-average payroll even after their salary dump, and shedding Oswalt, Berkman, and Feliz?  Yikes.

Posted 09/10  at  09:49 AM
John said...

I like this a lot…other than the lowly Pirates, payroll is really not a great indicator of success or failure (at least this year).

Posted 09/10  at  11:28 AM
Anna McDonald said...

Every time I think no better way to visually analyze the baseball world can be published, something like this comes up.  This is amazing, and now one of my all time favorites.  So much of this 2010 year in baseball makes sense right here in your post.

Posted 09/10  at  01:36 PM
Max L said...

Wow. this is really neat, concise, informative, and pleasing.

Posted 09/10  at  04:22 PM
jeff said...

I believe a clearer picture would emerge if the circles were displayed such that their top boundary (rather than their center) aligned with the winning percentage.  It would more clearly show, for instance, how close the Yankees and Rays are.

Posted 09/10  at  05:01 PM
Josh said...

I agree with jeff, that either placing a clear point within the circle that corresponds with winning percentage or having the top of the circle aligned with winning percentage could show this a bit better. Great idea though.

Posted 09/12  at  02:38 PM
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