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Liverpool extended their lead in the Premier League to 5 points this weekend, as Manchester City fell to another defeat. Things are going well for the start of Slot's reign, although it is still early days - and if City are within 5 points at the turn of the year then you'd still fancy them to make it work.
Appropriately enough, Jordan Pickles first #SportsVizSunday submission is looking at the top scorers of the top 5 leagues in Europe - and what a first entry it is! Jordan makes great use of Tableau's Dynamic Zone Visibility to allow the user to expand the entry for each player and see more details about the goals they've scored. The detail included is excellent, showing how the goal was scored as well as a shot location map. The colours that Jordan has used are also striking, with a bright neon palette against a dark grey background. If this is Jordan's first submission, I can't wait to see what he does next!
Bonus feature too - Jordan also wrote up how he created the dashboard, from scraping the data in Python through to all his Tableau techniques!
The #30DayMapChallenge is in full flow and there's been a couple of great sports entries so far.
Georgios Karamanis caught my eye before with his brilliant minimal visualisations and he's back with another great example of minimal style with his NBA map showing how the trophy has moved over the last 5 years. It's been on some adventures that's for sure, and Georgios stripped-back styling really allows the movement of the trophy to be the focus.
The second map that crossed my feed was Erwan Rivault's visualisation of the 2020/21 edition of the Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race. This race is a remarkable showcase of individual determination and sailing skill, and Erwan's map shows why, with the tracks heading through some very inhospitable waters. I like how each competitor is shown, giving a feel for both the breadth of slightly different routes as well as the chaos of simply taking part.
Jamie Carragher's post about Brentford extending their xG has been doing the rounds this week using video analysis (it's in the quote tweet below if you want to watch it). One of my questions was how exactly Carragher had decided that Brentford were the best at doing it, and Ben Griffis took a very approximate look into how that could be measured. Not only is this a great extension to Carragher's initial analysis, it is also a great extension to the traditional shot/pass/assist maps that have become common-place in football analytics. It's really interesting to see which sort of things can increase or decrease xG, as well as seeing whether there are any patterns in the general play from Brentford in these areas.
And last up for this week's visualisations is FPL Radar's collection of cool Fantasy Premier League visualisations that they've seen. FPL can be, unsurprisingly, a very data-heavy pursuit and it stands to reason that there will be masses of visualisations created to help people understand what the data is telling them. There are certainly some very cool examples and ideas in this thread.
One last thing before I wrap up this week's roundup - CJ, Simon and myself got together for our recap of our favourite #SportsVizSunday visualisations from the last month. You can check it out on Youtube if you feel so inclined.
Finally, we're at DataFam Europe 2024 this week and we'll be co-hosting a community session on Tuesday with Back to Viz Basics! Give us a shout if you'll be there too.
Mo and the #SportsVizSunday team
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