MLB Team Payroll Efficiency

Congratulations to the Red Sox for winning in all! As the 2018 MLB season wraps, I have updated my visualization on team payrolls as related to wins and post season success (or lack thereof).  This analysis and viz specifically looks at how well teams manage total payroll spend.  In other words, how much bang (wins) …

Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool Tour

Radiohead is back on the road in Europe and my visualization celebrating the band’s A Moon Shaped Pool tour will be updated following each show with a unique HD performance.    I recently enhanced the viz by adding the setlist for each show.  My inspiration for this came from a couple of blog posts by …

Minor League Baseball Team Affiliations

If you are a baseball fan like me you may like to keep up with your team's minor league system.  Or, maybe you have some summer travel plans and would like to take in a minor league game along the way.  I created a visualization in Tableau that maps every minor league team and all …

Buying a World Series

The Cubs ended a 108 year drought to win the 2016 Word Series.  It was an accomplishment that ended a historic run of disappointment for fans on the North side. However, winning this year should not have been a huge surprise.  Like most World Series champs over the past 25 seasons, the Cubs had a …

MLB Team Payroll Efficiency

Congratulations to the Cubs for winning in all! As the 2016 MLB season wraps, I have updated my visualization on team payrolls as related to wins and post season success (or lack thereof).  This analysis and viz specifically looks at how well teams manage total payroll spend.  In other words, how much bang (wins) does …

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool Tour

I like Radiohead.  I like Tableau.  As the band recently finished the 2016 tour in support of A Moon Shaped Pool, I wanted to create a visualization to let users watch a unique performance from each of their 26 shows.  The viz includes the first song from the tour (Burn The Witch from Amsterdam) to the last …

Buying a World Series

As a follow-up to my last post, this simple visualization demonstrates the rarity of winning a World Series while spending less than the average team for that season.  In fact, over the past 26 seasons, only five World Series champions have spent less than the league average.  Noteworthy are the 2003 Marlins who spent 31% …

MLB Team Payroll Efficiency

In honor of the new MLB season getting underway, I wanted to look at historical team and general manager success with respect to payroll.  Specifically, which general managers have done more with less over their careers?  This visualization gives a tip of the cap to GMs such as Billy Beane and Andrew Friedman.  Although neither …