Category: Sports
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Winners, Losers, and the Trade Game
A visual history of MLB trades and their ripple effects. In every MLB season, team trade activity revolves around one key date — the official trade deadline at the end of July. For those less familiar with baseball, trades serve many purposes beyond just swapping players. Like any professional sport, baseball is a business, and…
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Promotion Dreams & Relegation Fears
A Visualization of English Football’s Tiers English football is structured in a multi-tiered system, with the top five tiers forming the professional and semi-professional backbone of the sport. The top five tiers of the “English Football Pyramid” are the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and National League. National is considered the top level…
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MLB 2023: AL West Division Race
Using Tableau to visualize the playoff race Dataset: http://www.baseball-reference.com Today we take a look at the race to the playoffs in the West division for the American League in the MLB. The division champion earns an automatic bid to the playoffs and depending on record a bye to the second round of the playoffs. The…
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Examining the Run Differential in Baseball
Major League Baseball defines run differential as a cumulative team statistic that combines offensive and defensive performance. A team’s run differential is determined by subtracting the total number of runs (both earned and unearned) it has allowed from the number of runs it has scored. Source This performance measure helps to identify teams that are…
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