January 4, 2016
Makeover Monday: Bryce Harper Had the “Most Valuable” Season of Any MLB Player Since 2002
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This week we looked at this table from FiveThirtyEight. The main data point in this table and the article is the Surplus Value column. Essentially, FiveThirtyEight uses WAR as a way to calculate a player's value and then compares that to what they were actually paid.
There's nothing particularly terrible about this table. It serves its main purpose: looking up facts. But what is does lack is a simple way to make comparisons between the players and more quickly show the differences between them. Ideally, I want to answer the question: How great was the 2015 season from Bryce Harper?
With this in mind, I created this visualisation. Click on the image to interact, as I have included some highlight actions. However, the view itself can stand alone without the interactivity as well.
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https://public.tableau.com/profile/sapna2978#!/vizhome/MLBcompensation/MLBCompensationStats
ReplyDeleteThis is my first visualization on tableau public.
Sapna, what do the two different bars for each player mean? That isn't clear.
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