Per Pitch Results for Multiple Players
Design Description: The placement and color of a sphere on a sub-rod shows what kind of result came of each pitch: Strike, Foul, Ball, etc. Each long rod holds a whole game of pitches per pitcher. We selected 9 pitchers and for each showed two of their worst and two of their best games.
Use Case: This design could be used in several scenarios - either a deep dive on a particular pitcher to look at a season of games per pitch, or looking at a set of top draft picks from previous years and doing a review of their performance upon reaching the MLB - did they have the same kind of performance arc scouts and analysts expected.
These kind of designs are useful in revealing patterns over time, in using the simplicity of a few parameters to reveal repeating sequences. This provides a place to do observation over long time scales and use the insights to dig deeper into a player’s data.
Scatterplots of Player Profiles
Design Description: 3D scatterplot - players were distributed on x, y, & z axes based on descriptive parameters about their performance. Total bets made, total won, number of S/M/L bets, etc. We added parameters to a glyph of each player so we could see more detail about who the players were in the distribution across space.
Use Case: Scatterplots are a phenomenal tool for surfacing hidden clusters and distributions of a cohort across sets of parameters. The conversion of a single sphere object into a glyph with, in this case 5, additional parameters gives users the ability to have a much richer understanding of the meaning of player distribution in space and formulate follow on questions even quicker.
Historical Draft Review
Design Description: This shows a retrospective of four years of draft picks by a hockey team. The tower on the left shows players drafted but not signed; tower on the right shows players drafted AND signed. The top sub-grid indicates the 1st round of the draft, down to the bottom sub-grid indicating the 7th. Player glyphs are arranged on the sub-grids by position (forward, center, defense, goalie). And the 6 parameters shown per player represent different attributes and the athletes score taken from public scouting reports.
Use Case: This design is especially useful during a decision review process. Our brains are good at spotting patterns - if we can see accumulated data visually represented. It’s much harder to do the work of both remembering multiple years of selections, each individual’s information, and the results on the quest for the pro team.