23 February 2011

Simple Graph Comparing Cal Ripken Jr, Derek Jeter, and Chipper Jones

Eutaw Street Hooligans highlighted this atrocious use of statistics and colored spectacles suggesting somehow that Chipper Jones had a better career than Cal Ripken Jr.  Here is an amazing gem: "[Jones] might have been the better overall player [be]cause defensively; they are all about the same as well."

Here is a simple graph that communicates far more than that article.


All three look like great players.  One looks a bit better due to a higher peak.

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