Look at this fun little chart! Remember my long chart listing the teams back in Week 4’s Wire and the amounts spent and number of adds and drops? Well, this is just taking a look at that first metric in the form of a Tree Map. Hopefully you’re able to see the dollar amounts, but basically the bigger the logo the more FAAB has been spent on players of that team. Let’s break down the top 6, who account for $275 of the $506 spent so far this season:
We love to see the synergy, folks. Here’s a little treat for anyone who has listened to the pod. I got working on it as soon as I heard the idea mentioned, thanks roomie! You guys were definitely right in saying that the target score is well above 120 (see also “Distribution of Points with Wins and Losses”), but surprisingly wrong about Max being the one to win by the lowest average points. It’s actually Abie who’s the sneaky guy, who would have thought? Anyway, new Wire coming soon, as well as some other developments regarding the “image” of the brand going forward, Stay tuned…
Since I won’t be able to bless y’all with The Wire until either tomorrow or Friday, I figured I should sate your ravenous appetite for League content until the pod drops with another amusing table of stats. It’s pretty self explanatory, a team beats another team by a large margin, that margin is bigger than the total score of another team that played that week. Sometimes it includes the team that created the margin itself, and I’m still not sure if this is a testament to the team that won or lost to create such a big margin, but these are the interesting and useless facts you’ve come to expect from us here at Must Be Sunday. Gotta go record, enjoy!
(this is basically the sentiment of every post in this series)
This is one I’ve wanted to put together for a little while now and it was pretty easy so I’m glad I finally did it. Since we have almost 500 games under the collective belt of this illustrious League, I wanted to see if the frequency of points scored in a game adhered to Normal Distribution and created a Bell Curve (remember stats class?) …and sure enough, it did ๐
Now that everyone has at least one win, I decided to put this little grid together to show who you’ve won against (and conversely, who you’ve lost against).
Some things to notice: – The only active shutout is held by Kris, with 4 wins against Max and 0 losses. Will we see a continuation of this trend in Week 4? Or will Max break the streak? For what it’s worth, in the two seasons Lebron was active he was shut out by Brendan (3-0) and myself (2-0), so these things happen. Here’s the chaser, Max: – The most frequent match-up has been Me vs. Max (9 games), in which I’ve dropped 7 of them. I know for sure one of my 2 wins was in a no-stakes consolation game in the playoffs, but it seems Max always knows how to put another tick in my loss column. Way to go, see ya Week 5. – The second-most frequent match-up of Abie vs. Brendan is currently neck and neck with 4 games won on each side. This leads me into the handful of other historical match-ups that currently sit at even: 3-3: Max & Vigs 2-2: Me & Brent, Abie & Kris, Vigs & Ryan, Brent & Max
And that’s about all she wrote as of now. I’ll be maintaining this list as I have with everything else in the Must Be Sunday Universe, at the expense of my actual job and CPA exam studying. For now, enjoy looking at and discussing this little piece of LeagueStory, as well as strategizing how you can put that next win in the books!
Okay before I answer any questions I want to acknowledge the death of Michael K. Williams, as a prominent cast member of the show that this column takes its namesake from, I’d be remiss to not mention the tragic circumstances that led to his early exit from the Earth. Rest in power, Professor Kane (his character in Community, I never saw The Wire). Also would like to say that I’m particularly saddened by the passing of Norm MacDonald, a comedian on and off the field and someone who I try to emulate in many of my not-nearly-as-funny real life observations and so-called “jokes”.
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