Visual History of Football (project)

[Blue Dawg]

Ive been working on a (personal) data-driven project to show the whole history of Tech football in poster form. I want to avoid numbers as much as possible (e.g., display the difference in wins/losses over time rather than say 8-4). I've got some supplementary information on here like coaches, conferences, championships, all the good stuff.

Just wanted to run it by the BBB collective and see if y'all have any suggestions or if I have any glaring omissions. This particular version is for an 18x24 poster but I think I'm going to bump it up to 24x36.

One interesting thing I found was that in 28% of the games we've ever played, at least one team scored 0 points (games shown by points scored in top graph).

[BRDawg81]

It is an interesting graphic presentation. My comment would be to show a scale for the top graph. I am assuming that is points for and against for each game in the given season. 24X36 would be a good size for production.

[Blue Dawg]

It is an interesting graphic presentation. My comment would be to show a scale for the top graph. I am assuming that is points for and against for each game in the given season. 24X36 would be a good size for production.

Thanks, I'm going to add labels for some of the higher spikes as well -- like the very visible 100-0 win against Clarke Memorial College in 1922

[WWDog]

This would be a lot of work, but if you have links for season highlights, stats, coaches & team pictures, etc you could put hyper-links to those in an on-line version. The chart could end up being the be all for a complete history of TECH football. In fact, if it turned out well, it could become a standard for sports teams' be all history. Yep, I think you need to go get a patent right away before somebody steals this idea and you are out the money it could make for you to contribute to TECH!

I really like what you have done and think it could move to something remarkable!

[Blue Dawg]

This would be a lot of work, but if you have links for season highlights, stats, coaches & team pictures, etc you could put hyper-links to those in an on-line version. The chart could end up being the be all for a complete history of TECH football. In fact, if it turned out well, it could become a standard for sports teams' be all history. Yep, I think you need to go get a patent right away before somebody steals this idea and you are out the money it could make for you to contribute to TECH!

I really like what you have done and think it could move to something remarkable!

Thank you! Unfortunately it's difficult to (c) a template like this: I can already claim creation rights on this specific one but if someone wanted to make one for, say, Alabama, I couldn't stop them without significant legal commitment.

That being said...an online version is totally doable (with some work) as this is mostly compiled with the D3.js library (an online dynamic data viz code library).

Also might do one for basketball if this turns out good.

[arkansasbob]

it's missing the humanitarian bowl loss (hey, can't blame you for trying to forget that)

[Blue Dawg]

it's missing the humanitarian bowl loss (hey, can't blame you for trying to forget that)

Thanks, exactly why I posted, knew there were bound to be some mistakes.

Earlier today I also found out my original dataset doesn't include the 6-0 victory over LSU in Ruston.

[GermDawg]

Very nice, data visualization is the best way to process large data, notice the saw-tooth pattern in the w-l bars the since going FBS. Partly due to coaching turnover.

[KSDAWG]

Solid stuff! Keep it up.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Is there an attachment?

[Blue Dawg]

Is there an attachment?

Should be an inline image. If you cant see it click this link.