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Reader Contest: Make Your Own Graph

Update: Now with real prizes!  See below.

Over the past month, BtB's fallen in love with graphs.  Chris designed a great one for historical player value, jhmoore started the binomial craze, and iamawesomer's been filling the FanShots with those made by others.

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Now it's your turn.  Show us your best graph.  Share your talents at presenting baseball information of any kind in an intuitive visual format.

To enter, simply post your graph or chart in a comment below.  If you'd like to link to a larger version, feel free.  Entries close Friday night at midnight and the BtB crew will announce the winner on Monday.

Actually, I should say we'll announcer the winners, plural, on Monday, because there's a second category we'll judge: most entertaining graph.  You know, something like this:

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What?  You want prizes?  The Hardball Times has graciously donated both a copy of their 2009 Annual (which recaps the 2008 season and contains a forty awesome articles as THT fills the shoes of Bill James' old Abstracts) and their 2009 Season Preview (which, well, contains projections and blurbs for all the significant players and full-length articles all thirty teams).  Our two winners can fight over which book they'll have shipped straight to their front door.

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One of the prizes should be a high quality, large print glossy group photo signed by the BtB writing staff.

"OBP is not a production number, and should not be used as something he achieved."

by VictorW on Feb 3, 2009 4:30 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

The BtB group is about as far spread out as can be (within the US)

That being said I’ll just grab a copy of everyone’s Facebook profile pic and mspaint one together, same thing more or less.

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by iamawesomer on Feb 3, 2009 5:24 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

WHOOOOOSH

That’s the sound of the question going over my head. Does Mr. Selig hand out signed photos of himself or something?

"OBP is not a production number, and should not be used as something he achieved."

by VictorW on Feb 3, 2009 4:40 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

That's the BPro prize for their contests -- signed photos of Bud.

I thought you were making that joke.

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Feb 3, 2009 4:58 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I double fail by not hitting the reply button.

Sounds like BP is making a joke by handing out pictures of Bud.

"OBP is not a production number, and should not be used as something he achieved."

by VictorW on Feb 3, 2009 5:38 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Jeff Francoeur's contributions don't always show up in the box score

"OBP is not a production number, and should not be used as something he achieved."

by VictorW on Feb 3, 2009 5:59 PM EST reply actions   1 recs

how many entries per contestant?

Bringing you more-or-less replacement level analysis and commentary since sometime in 2008.

by devil_fingers on Feb 3, 2009 6:09 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

uh I made this

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Juuuust a bit outside!!
http://www.rightfieldbleachers.com

by Jack Moore on Feb 3, 2009 7:52 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Can you make it smaller?

It’s crashing my browser.

:o

by kensai on Feb 3, 2009 7:56 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

+1

A noob or n00b is someone that lacks intellegance or common sense, most people think that noob is a word used only in the online gaming world, but in reality it is becoming an ever popular word with teenage society.

a noob could be simply a level 100 running round shouting ‘’WTF DO I GO!?’’ or someone calling someone else a noob and then getting hit with a brick, anyone can call anyone a noob, but normally they are noobs themselves
-robert_d_wilfong

by cwhitman412 on Feb 5, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Player Relationships Via Fantasy Trades

I want to post a few graphs I’ve been posting on my website, fantasyballjunkie.com.

The first tracks the trades that people have been making in fantasy baseball leagues. Currently, in CBS Sportsline fantasy leagues, the top five players being traded are Jake Peavy, Matt Holliday, Clayton Kershaw, Prince Fielder, and Rich Harden. Here’s a network diagram that shows the players they recovered in return. You need to go to my blog to see the full interactive version.

by Fantasy Ball Junkie on Feb 5, 2009 9:08 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Injury-Prone

Some ballplayers seemingly wear a scarlet-colored "I" upon their jersey. Whether the mark is given with truth or falsehood, by modern judgment or historical legacy, some players can’t escape the label of being called "injury-prone."
After analyzing nearly a thousand top Google search results, we present a word cloud that symbolically represents those marked with the "injury-prone" tag. http://www.fantasyballjunkie.com/?attachment_id=677
(Hmm, having problems uploading the image.)

by Fantasy Ball Junkie on Feb 5, 2009 9:11 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

good ol

Wordle. Love this one.

I just got back from your mom's basement.

by Warden11 on Feb 13, 2009 10:29 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Projected Fantasy Baseball Auction Values on MLB Players

Finally, a bubble chart that shows the fantasy baseball auction values projected on players heading into the 2009 season. You’ll need to visit the link (http://www.fantasyballjunkie.com/?p=447) to see a full interactive version, but here’s a screenshot:

by Fantasy Ball Junkie on Feb 5, 2009 9:25 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

What I've always wanted to see is a some sort of chart...

… where the columns are different positions and the higher a player is in his column, the more he’s worth for fantasy (or by WAR, I guess). It might have to be somewhat logorithmic or just have more space at the bottom for all the $0-$5 or 0 to 1 WAR guys. It’s a nice picture of how many players are available at each tier and at what positions. Maybe you could switch things around or add another part in order to show fantasy value by category…

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Feb 5, 2009 1:33 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Yes, I've done something l that

Yes, I’ve done something l that.

I took CHONE projections and using a customized player rater, I translated the projections into fantasy value, adding VORP value across statistical categories.

I then used the results and cross-analyzed the data with average draft position.

Look at my post on thirdbasemen here:
http://www.fantasyballjunkie.com/?p=418

Scroll down to the third chart, a stack graph that does something like you mention, tiering different 3B according to draft category and positioning each player, higher or lower in the column, depending on projected value returned.

by Fantasy Ball Junkie on Feb 5, 2009 5:26 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I'm still working on this

but here is my attempt a creating a hotzones graph:

You can see more of an explanation here and here.

We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches

by Slyde on Feb 5, 2009 2:53 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Yes! I remember seeing these at your site. Keep up the experimentation.

Is there a way to perhaps run a weighted average for each zone, so the colors are a bit more continuous? Maybe, for each colored ball, weight the real zone 50, each of the 8 touching balls 5 each, and the 16 balls outside that the rest of the 10%? Or count zones that touch diagonally less than zones that touch horizontally/vertically?

In other words, can they be a bit more continuous?

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Feb 5, 2009 4:38 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

yeah, that's one thing I've been thinking about

I tried that a bit with the background yellow color, but I like your idea too. I’ll keep fiddling.

We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches

by Slyde on Feb 5, 2009 4:42 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

relative to overall average

I don’t have a complete dataset, so even that overall average may not be accurate. Getting all of the data is on my to do list. Once I do that, I’m guessing the graphs will be a little more precise by zone and such.

We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches

by Slyde on Feb 5, 2009 4:43 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

not cool man

not cool at all

My millions are unconventional!

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 5, 2009 7:47 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Ah, the graph that got me started on BtBS


I always wondered why they let me on their site. Oh yeah, its because of stuff like this:

lol umpireaments

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by iamawesomer on Feb 6, 2009 2:15 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on Feb 6, 2009 2:49 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Kinda weak, but I just made this to illustrate our BCB community projections for pitchers

Bottom right obviously=good. Interesting that McClung has 5 more runs above replacement than Suppan. I wanted to get RAR in here too.

Also (in response to saying Odalis Perez’s 06 and 07 were bad):

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Feb 7, 2009 12:59 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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