The 2008 season started with the Red Sox as champs. They were beaten by the A's, who were beaten back by Boston, who were then swept by Toronto, who lost to Oakland, who lost to Cleveland, and so on, until we reached our current champion.
The Heavyweight of the Year is the team that wins the most title bouts at the end of the season.
2008 Title Bout Records:
| Mets | 23 | 17 |
| Athletics | 13 | 13 |
| Red Sox | 11 | 7 |
| Cubs | 9 | 1 |
| Padres | 8 | 6 |
| Rockies | 7 | 14 |
| Angels | 6 | 4 |
| Indians | 6 | 11 |
| Brewers | 5 | 0 |
| Cardinals | 5 | 5 |
| Reds | 5 | 5 |
| Dodgers | 5 | 7 |
| Marlins | 4 | 3 |
| Rangers | 4 | 6 |
| Blue Jays | 3 | 3 |
| Nationals | 3 | 5 |
| Mariners | 2 | 1 |
| Yankees | 2 | 3 |
| Phillies | 2 | 5 |
| Tigers | 1 | 2 |
| Giants | 0 | 3 |
| Orioles | 0 | 3 |
2006 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
2005 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
Ken: catfish AT zombia d.o.t. com
Ryan: rarmbrust AT gmail d.o.t. com
Philip: kingchimp AT alamedanet d.o.t net
2008 Stats
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Thanks for the wonderful feedback on the original post. As requested, I've made some changes to the prototype.
I tried to make the innings more defined, I moved some of the data, and differentiated some colors. I added in the pitchers names, and made the code on the left hand side less mysterious. There's now a pitch count bar at the bottom. I also extended the plate appearance end-lines from the top to the bottom.
Anything else you'd like to see changed or added? Once I get everything smoothed out, I'm planning on posting charts like this for particularly intriguing games this season. There might be some interesting trends that jump out.
I'd write a fancy graphics script to parse the data from pitch-by-pitch sources for every game, and automatically generate a graphic... but that's beyond my technical capabilities. Unless someone out there can lend a hand, I'll just continue to put these together using retrosheet, MS paint, notepad, and my own misplaced sense of persistence.
One last item: any suggestions for a name for this thing? I've been calling it a pitch graph and a pitch chart, but those just don't have a nice ring to them...
I'm wondering if Philip might have been right, though, that it might be better to create three groups instead of two: (1) out events, (2) reaching base events, and (3) balls/strikes.
The ball/strike events are less important than the out/reach base events, so maybe somehow they should not be given equal graphical weight. To me, the interesting thing is the length of the at-bat, not whether any particular pitch was a ball or a strike. So maybe the ball/strikes just get a little dot instead of a little line, so the data is still there, but it's more easy to ignore.
This is hard to explain without drawing it myself, but perhaps there's a way to put a box around each AB so you can tell at a glance the outcome of the PA. So the box would always contain the ball/strike sequence, plus would either extend up to contain the out, if it results in an out, or extend down to contain the hit/walk/error if the runner gets on base. (Let me know if that makes sense, otherwise, I can try to email you a drawing of what I mean.)
You mean like PECOTA?
"Pitcher's Enhanced Chart of Total Accountability"
The Improved New Schematic That Allows Assessing Pitching Performance
(or not ...)
Also known as ARMAS.
Looks like something that Ed Tufte might put together.
I also recall there being something similar (zip chart or something?) that I think I saw on Baseball Musing website, but much more simpler than your concept. But if you can find the programmer, he might be able to modify his prior work to fit your format.
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