{"id":10976,"date":"2018-10-10T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2019-01-10T23:57:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T04:57:38","slug":"10976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/labs\/10976\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Of Giants – Batting of the 2018 Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In baseball, the goal is to be the best, as it is with most sports.\u00a0 However very few teams ever make it to the World Series, or even the Post Season.\u00a0 So it is impressive that a team could win 3 World Series in the course of just 5 years.\u00a0 However other than one post season shot in 2015, the San Francisco Giants have sunk down to the bottom of the rankings and have not seen a post season in the past 3 years despite having many of the same players as the 2014 World Series.<\/p>\n

In this document I plan on taking a look at the batting of the current San Francisco Giants to determine how a team who was so strong only a few years ago has managed to slump down to the bottom of the pack.\u00a0 This study will use the 2018 opening day roster as the selection of players and analyze both their performance this year as well as their performance in previous years in order to see how far they have come or where they are going based on the trends of their batting over the years.\u00a0 This study will only focus on the position players and not the pitchers as they only bat one every five days at most.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Baseball Reference<\/a><\/p>\n

The idea for this study is largely based around this graph that I came across while looking for statistics on the players.\u00a0 This graph shows how far the margin of win is for each game of the 2018 season.\u00a0 It shows how they started off strong having both dramatic wins and losses but as the season progressed the green started to diminish and there seemed to be a lot more red drops than green and longer periods of red dominance.<\/p>\n

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The Baseball Gage<\/a><\/p>\n

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This seemed strange that players, like Buster Posey shown above could be compared to Hall of Fame players but lately have been playing so awfully.\u00a0 Since the first graph set showed how many losses there were by amount I started to focus more of on the batting of the team.<\/p>\n

Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n