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I Visualized the 2018 Recruiting Rankings in a Chart. Interesting Distribution

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johnarmitage's picture
February 8, 2018 at 4:38pm
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Note the mild "long tail" distribution of the top 60 teams. Pt difference in 1-30 is 117 pts, 30-60 is 35. And the dropoff from #2 (us) to #3 is the largest in the set:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7apaj92oytphf34/2018%20Recruiting.png?dl=0

What this means is that the best performers perform better than than others by a greater margin than performers lower in the pack.

Btw this chart format has properties I invented, as part of my work in this part of the software industry. I published a book with the complete body of work in 2015,

"Bringing Numbers to Life: LAVA and Design-Led Innovation in Visual Analytics". One of my case studies was using a similar format to grade out NFL draft player evaluations. I was with software company SAP at the time, and we were working with the SF 49ers on their custom scouting application.

You can read the book online for free here with the link below. Images of the scouting app are in the "Free Samples" chapter.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/bringing-numbers-to-l...

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