Graphic representation of pennant races

rcbuss · 12-08-2005, 01:18 PM

May have already been suggested (too lazy to search today):

Here are a couple of websites with what I'm talking about:

http://www.pennant-race.com/all_current_baseball_races
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...tting-graphic/

This the book that started it all:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

Baseball's Pennant Races: A Graphic View (Paperback)
by John W. Davenport

spleen1015 · 12-08-2005, 01:38 PM

Those are awesome. It would be a nice addition for sure.

kq76 · 12-08-2005, 01:38 PM

I like that, a lot! It really tells you the entire season's story of a team (OAK and BAL are interesting opposite cases) and even an whole division (NL east and west are also interesting opposite cases) in seconds.

spleen1015 · 12-08-2005, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kq76

I like that, a lot! It really tells you the entire season's story of a team (OAK and BAL are interesting opposite cases) and even an whole division (NL east and west are also interesting opposite cases) in seconds.

Those ones on pennant-race.com are amaysing.

You're right. It gives a good pick to tell you the story of the entire season. It is neat to look at things this way.

gmo · 12-08-2005, 03:10 PM

If one wanted to be really greedy one could ask for a graphic like the Games Above/Below .500 but showing Games Behind Leader. Whoever is in 1st place is at the top at zero and the other teams behind them are down below.

It is only like turning the Games Above/Below .500 graph by roughly 45 degrees, but it gives another interesting view.

gcsii99 · 12-08-2005, 07:26 PM

Great Idea...i've started doing these for my online league and if I weren't so lazy would do them for my solo league...Might be getting greedy but it would be even better if they were outputed in such a way that they could be saved. Would be a wonderful way to quickly review seasons past.

gmo · 12-08-2005, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by gcsii99

Great Idea...i've started doing these for my online league and if I weren't so lazy would do them for my solo league...

What do you use to make them?

Really I am somewhat surprised that no one has over time built a utility that would do this. I guess the issue is with having a program in Windows that will do the graphics. The data can be pulled now from one of the exporter output files and would not be that hard to process, well, at least with some programming. An Excel file to do this would not be routine to make, but I would think somebody has at some point.

EDIT - I see from the related threads at the bottom rcbuss had the idea before, but it did not generate any responses then.

gcsii99 · 12-08-2005, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by gmo

What do you use to make them?

I was doing them by hand and it does take a while. I used Excel and just went though each team tracking games above .500, adding or subtracting 1, corresponding to a win or loss.

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rcbuss Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mauston, WI Posts: 209	Graphic representation of pennant races May have already been suggested (too lazy to search today): Here are a couple of websites with what I'm talking about: http://www.pennant-race.com/all_current_baseball_races http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...tting-graphic/ This the book that started it all: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books Baseball's Pennant Races: A Graphic View (Paperback) by John W. Davenport __________________ Robert C Buss IOSBL Mauston Mad Cows

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12-08-2005, 01:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
spleen1015 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Posts: 4,456	Those are awesome. It would be a nice addition for sure.

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gmo Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Grand Forks, ND Posts: 2,394	If one wanted to be really greedy one could ask for a graphic like the Games Above/Below .500 but showing Games Behind Leader. Whoever is in 1st place is at the top at zero and the other teams behind them are down below. It is only like turning the Games Above/Below .500 graph by roughly 45 degrees, but it gives another interesting view.