It’s the relative strength of each team at each position relative to the other team’s same position. Label the x-axis as that (maybe “Relative wOBA Difference in Positions” or something to that effect). Save the Blue-New York and Red-Philadelphia for a separate box inside or outside the main graph.

The other problem with that graph is that even though there’s a huge difference in 3B production (A-Rod vs. Feliz), the difference looks small visually. You could try having the outer edges start at 0.250 wOBA (instead of 0) for a better looking scale.

Because as it stands, the graph is plain wrong. Shortstop is clearly the New Yorkiest position in all of baseball.

You guys can pretty this up, but what about a different graph from each teams point of view – based upon the differences in wOBA by position?

Rough view

http://www.alltimebaseballsim.net/btb.htm

Blasphemous as it may sound, I don’t usually listen to/watch the World Series all that often if my team(s) are gone, but this one intrigues me. For some reason, I feel a strange empathy towards the Yankees, like I want them to win or something. It’s pretty weird, I have to say.

I won’t be cheering for anyone probably, but I’m still excited to watch. And Sky, I promise to get some pieces in on the WS over the course of the next week.

by how close Swisher and Werth are in wOBA. Without looking at the numbers, I’d have bet that Werth’s advantage was larger than .007.

And WAR Comparisons, which also take defense into account for the starting lineups.
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