The Geography Of Baseball

I'm non a fan of baseball game precisely I create similar Doug Duffy's MLB Player Birth Map. The map plots the nativity house of every MLB histrion going dorsum to 1876.

What I most similar almost the map is the release of options to attempt out the underlying data. You tin filter the players displayed on the map past times flavour or, if you lot are solely interested inwards viewing the players from your favorite team, you lot tin filter the results shown past times team.

The map equally good includes options to filter the players shown past times yearly WAR too career WAR (Wins Above Replacement is a rating of a player’s full contribution to his team). This agency that if fifty-fifty if your aren't interested inwards where players were born you lot tin nevertheless run the map to persuasion who were the 'best' players inwards each MLB season.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 overnice deport upon inwards the visualization of all this information is that the map automatically zooms to the map bounds of all the players shown when you lot enquiry the map.

Doug Duffy has equally good written an interesting post on The Changing Face of the MLB. In the post he discusses the growing influence of unusual born players inwards the MLB. It includes or too then information analysis of the numbers of players from Venezuela too the Dominican Republic. It equally good looks at the historically high proportion of baseball game players from California, Texas too Florida.