A Deep Dive into Decades of Baseball’s Recorded Statistics

Sports data are usually stored in databases and made available as plain tables that, in the best of the cases, allow the users to sort them by a given column. Although this technique is the most used to show the present state of a competition or its final outcome, it does not provide all of the information an analyst may require. Hence, this work aims to provide a new method of visualizing full seasons of baseball by means of a heatmap that holds every game of the season in it. Taking advantage of filtering and interaction, we explore the possibility of overlapping seasons to provide a deeper analysis of teams’ results over selected time spans.