Sports Archive:
Die Hard Fans
In: Sports
5 May 2010Russ Maschmeyer created an index to measure which MLB fans will buy tickets despite a poor economy, high ticket prices, or losing teams. (via)
Tiger Tiger
In: Interactive Sports
8 Apr 2010How he’s doing at the Master’s – hole by hole, compared to previous years:
The Tiger economy:
A little dated, but this interactive lets you compare statistics 1997-2008:
From flipflopflyball.com — a collection of interesting baseball infographics. This is just a sample. They really have some creative visualizations of long term trends there. Check it out.
Stacked record bars showing whether the teams with the best record won the world series: 
Country of origin (1871-2009): 
Top 25 home run hitters, and whether they are “tainted”: 
Player Names (1871-2009): 
The history of professional baseball: 
March Madness Seed Performance (1985-2009)
In: Sports
30 Mar 2010You have to look at it a minute, but the widths show how the seeds performed through the years. (via Information is Beautiful)
March Madness Twitter Feed
28 Mar 2010Select a team to follow the tweets of it’s coaches, players, and notable observers.
March Madness Team Comparison
In: Interactive Sports
23 Mar 2010Defensive verses offensive field goals, with colored seeding and whether they’re still in the tournament.
NCAA Brackets
15 Mar 2010There are many others out there, but here are some of the slickest:
Interactive version from the NYT where you can enter and save your picks and compare your results to others over time. 
ESPN’s is kind of nice as you can drag a pick straight through to the final and has popup background info:
The NCAA.com version has a bit of background info on each team in popups:
NBC’s bracket let’s you fill in and print out your picks, provides analysis on each matchup, and has prizes(?).
Water use in Edmonton during the Olympic gold medal Hockey Game.
I’ve just started playing with this new online interactive visualization tool, but it looks fantastic.
Here are some examples of what other people have produced with it:
How Fast Can You Lose an Olympic Medal?
In: Culture Source: NYT Sports
28 Feb 2010For most, less than half a second. The NYT has graphed the finishing times of many Olympic events – and if you hit the play button at the left of the race it will play a tone-sound in real time for each finisher, illustrating just how little separated the medal winners from everyone else. Very cool! (via)
Olympic Pictograms
28 Feb 2010An entertaining video look at graphic design choices in the olympics.
Top 50 Football (Soccer) Players
In: Sports
23 Feb 2010As we head into world cup season – via Ben Huxley.
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