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Monday, February 28, 2011
Visual baseball: visualizing game score
Posted by Kevin Dame
Here's a way to visualize a pitcher's season using Bill James' Game Score stat. I found that shapes were more revealing than a simple line graph and I was able to spot patterns more easily. Here are a few pitchers from 2010:
Roy Halladay: I was struck by the weirdly repeatable pattern he had in the first half of the season. Maybe he's some sort of a cyborg or robot and trying to cover it up with intentional inconsistency.
Kevin Millwood: He faded in mid-summer, then career survival instincts seemed to kick in (or an urgent call from his agent).
Mat Latos: He had an amazing stretch of pitching, book-ended by two hideous starts. The Padres sure could have used "May, June, July, or August Latos" during their rough home stretch.
"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." - Edward Tufte.
Feel free to send comments, questions, and suggestions to Kevin via email.
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This is pretty cool! I really like how these end up looking and the story they tell. Thanks!