Fantasy Sports fans live in the world of numbers and statistics, making the data they work with perfect for visualization. CBS Sport’s Jamey Eisenberg has an article up covering how 2009 went down in Fantasy NFL events, and visualizes some of the data using Tableau.
As you can see with the interactive visualization below, we have a breakdown of the players that ended up with the highest winning percentage for Fantasy owners this past season. You can also see how their win percentage compared to their average draft position and how they did each week based on their Fantasy points in a standard-scoring league.
Yes!I love Fantasy football.These graphics fairly useless though.
Yes! I love Fantasy Football. These graphics are fairly useless though. What I would love to see (but haven’t had time to find all the data) is a comparison of the top few football sites, and rank their performance over the 2009 season. For example, take CBS vs ESPN vs Yahoo vs NFL.com’s projections and figure out some way to measure their overall projection accuracy. i think you probably want to do something statistical, to take into account the difference between projected and actual performance, and give additional weighting to large errors (cause that’s where fantasy games are won or lost).