Quote:
Originally Posted by ptlyon
Looks like a twister board to me  |
The X axis (left to right) is the number of man-games missed by players on the team. The more to the right your team is, the more man-games your team's players missed that year.
The Y Axis (top to bottom) is the number of wins the team had that year. The higher the team, the more it won.
The size of the circle is a calculation of the quality of the players that missed games that year. A larger circle means you lost more good/great players than a team with a smaller sized circle.
So look at, say, Kansas City, we can see that it won 11 regular season games that year. It had about an average number of games missed by its players, but that the quality of the players that missed those games was fairly high that year.
This chart shows that Miami is truly bad. It's players missed very few games, and those that missed games weren't actually very good players. And yet it won only 6 games. That's bad. You can see why Carolina and Denver had such great years. They were very healthy compared to league averages.