By Chris Quick on September 1, 2010
The idea behind Chernoff Faces it that you can take data and map it to facial features in order to visually present differences in the numbers. The theory is that humans easily recognize facial features and can notice changes fairly quickly. There’s a lot of debate as to how useful Chernoff Faces are, but they’re [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged chernoff faces, mlb, teams, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on August 4, 2010
Sanchez has been solid on defense this year, but the Giants are going to need a little more oomph out of his bat. His current .302 wOBA — using the original Tango formula and not the FanGraphs’ version — leaves much to be desired. In our graph I’ve also included the league average for wOBA. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged freddy sanchez, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on July 14, 2010
Click for mega-size In 2009, Pablo Sandoval emerged as an offensive force for the Giants. For a team that sorely lacked any kind of hitter that you could qualify as ‘good’ or ‘non-terrible’ Sandoval’s wOBA in ’09 of .396 was one of the best things about the year. He hit for power, walked at a [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged pablo sandoval, power, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on June 27, 2010
Your ‘Wednesday Graph’ is coming early this week. I decided to make a gigantic team plate approach graph — using the 9 players on the team with the most plate appearances. Red circles are swings, green circles are non-swings. (Click to view the extra-large version. Large version is a little clearer.) Players are listed in [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, pablo sandoval, plate approach, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on June 2, 2010
This one speaks for itself. A graph of fastball velocity by appearance from our favorite flame-throwing closer.
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged graphs, Plots, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on May 26, 2010
Below you’ll see this week’s Wednesday Graph — a new feature I’m going to be doing here on BCB. Every Wednesday I’ll be posting a Giants-related graph. Please, hold back your excitement. This week’s graph focuses on Aaron Rowand has his BB% and K% rates. (Last data pulled from 5/23/10. BB% = BB/PA, K% = [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, wednesday graph
