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Weekly Roundup 05.18.25
- moseswootten
- May 18
- 3 min read
The FA Cup Final yesterday was a timely reminder of the power of sport, as well as a great example of 'the magic of the cup'. Crystal Palace, currently ranked 12th in the Premier League, overturned Manchester City to win their first ever major trophy in almost 120 years! An incredible moment for the club and the fans, and it was very clear how much it meant to those fans who were in the stadium to see it. A wonderful event and it is always nice to watch history being made too.
Kicking off this week is an exploration of how player heights vary by club and by position in the Bundesliga by Vignesh Suresh. I always like a small multiple, and I think that these small multiple bars are really nice to look at as well as conveying the information well. Vignesh has added a couple of good design touches for the user too, from dashed average lines for each team to being able to visually highlight a specific team too. Overall the clubs have a similar average height across their squads but digging in by position reveals that there can still be a surprising amount of difference between them.
Rob Taylor and Chris Westlake need very little introduction on these pages and they've teamed up for a rugby collaboration (which will be no surprise to anyone familiar with their Tableau profiles as they are both massive rugby fans). Their collaboration visualisation tracking the trends in the Lions squad is unsurprisingly delightful. I was intrigued to see that English players have been a mainstay in modern times but the inclusion of Scottish, Welsh and Irish players have waxed and waned (on a separate note, I'd be curious to see how this overlaps with Six Nations performances too).
The NBA draft lottery took place this week and caused a rather large amount of controversy as the Dallas Mavericks defied their 1.8% chance and snagged the top spot. Shortly beforehand, Jeff Platner looked at a brief history of the lottery system and how often the worst team got first place. It's a good example of how you can mix small graphs with text to help elevate the story being told.
Over on LinkedIn, Bence Kácsor has created a large dashboard full of interesting stats from the last ten years of Formula 1 racing. I really like Bence's drive for innovation (pun intended) and how he has chosen different styles to keep the viewer interested.
Kyeong-Seok Min has created their first dashboard for football data exploring a recent Sanfrecce Hiroshima v Yokohama F. Marinos. Pass maps and xG shot maps are always a really interesting thing to view. Now that they have a taste for football vizzes, I look forward to seeing what they choose to look at next!
The World Snooker Championship recently took place (another history making moment as it happens with the first Asian winner this year). Inspired by attending a workshop, Joel Reed built a remarkable first dashboard using map layers to look at snooker's greatest players. There's lots of great information in here, and the bar at the top works very nicely to sort the players by different metrics. I particularly like that the snooker ball detail for the number of maximums is coloured in the same way as the balls on the snooker table are if they are ordered from most to least points.
Lastly from LinkedIn, Umar Hassan has taken a new spin on sports data, and created a sports journalism performance dashboard for the #30BizVizIn30Days challenge. I really like Umar's motivation for creating this and that he generated his own data too. I can see how a dashboard like this could be very useful for decision making!
And if all of this wasn't enough to get you thinking, Statsbomb have made their event data available for Bayer Leverkusen's recent unbeaten Bundesliga winning season. I'm hoping to dig into this myself as it looks like a great resource for trying some new ideas.
If you're free next Wednesday then join us for the next Sports Tableau User Group featuring our very own CJ Mayes talking about his IIB Awards shortlisted tennis visualisation, along with Harry Sharman talking about his journey with Tableau in professional rugby. It should be a cracker! Starts at 5pm UK time.
And that's everything for this week folks!
Mo & the #SportsVizSunday team
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