Baseball Through History MLB Statistics 1900 - 2016 Use this visualization to explore various attributes about historic MLB statistics. Data is taken from the Lahman Baseball Database and visualizations were written in Javascript using D3. There are four main views on this site. The first plots team wins by year. The second is an overview of franchise performance. The third shows specific team performance. The fourth is a scatter plot for statistical coorelations.

This view plots wins for each franchise every year from 1900 to 2016. Dots indicate World Series winners.

BAL BOS NYY TBD TOR CHW CLE DET KCR MIN HOU ANA OAK SEA TEX ATL FLA NYM PHI WSN CHC CIN MIL PIT STL ARI COL LAD SDP SFG

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Using the dropdowns, select a franchise to view their number of winning seasons, losing seasons, overall win %, and postseason appearances.

select a team BAL BOS NYY TBD TOR CHW CLE DET KCR MIN HOU ANA OAK SEA TEX ATL FLA NYM PHI WSN CHC CIN MIL PIT STL ARI COL LAD SDP SFG select a team BAL BOS NYY TBD TOR CHW CLE DET KCR MIN HOU ANA OAK SEA TEX ATL FLA NYM PHI WSN CHC CIN MIL PIT STL ARI COL LAD SDP SFG

Using the team and year dropdowns, view a radar chart of various offensive and defensive team attributes. For attributes where less is better (runs allowed, hits allowed), the data is inversed to maintain the schema that a larger radar is better.

select a team BAL BOS NYY TBD TOR CHW CLE DET KCR MIN HOU ANA OAK SEA TEX ATL FLA NYM PHI WSN CHC CIN MIL PIT STL ARI COL LAD SDP SFG select a year select a team BAL BOS NYY TBD TOR CHW CLE DET KCR MIN HOU ANA OAK SEA TEX ATL FLA NYM PHI WSN CHC CIN MIL PIT STL ARI COL LAD SDP SFG select a year

Use this view to look at various coorelations between statistics. Dot size coorelates to wins.