Transaction Flow Charts for All!
by wyn on Feb 1, 2010 10:30 AM CST
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Earlier version originally posted at my personal blog. Since I've got a new Wolves chart posted, I thought Hoopus might like a peek.
I read a lot of Baseball Weekly as a kid and every so often they'd have a feature listing a team's roster and noting how each player on that roster was acquired. Every issue that contained one of these sidebars was a treasure to me.
After I got over Baseball Weekly, I began to read Athlon Sports' Pro Football annual preview (which seems to be team specific nowadays). This publication was my pick because of the full listing of each team's roster and a note about how each player was acquired.
Now that my tastes have grown and print media isn't quick enough to keep up with pro sports, I've turned to the NBA and the Internet.
In the projects section of my website there's a page dedicated to my childhood obsession with pro sports transactions. I've created flow charts (thanks OmniGraffle!) for each NBA team in an attempt to accurately portray the series of transactions that brought them to their current state.
I've dabbled with these in the past at Canis Hoopus and have shared them with fellow bloggers from time to time. There have even been exquisite reinterpretations of my format that in turn made me re-think how I go about this business.
So, peruse at your leisure and let me know what you think. Feedback is always welcome.
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Looks solid
except you have our trade with Memphis listed as a trade with… ourselves!
Thank you sir
More eyes help fix the 1am mistakes I’ve made in these!
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by wyn on Feb 1, 2010 12:14 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Flynn was our own pick
But we traded it to Boston in the Szczerbiak/Ricky Davis trade
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by wyn on Feb 1, 2010 12:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Are you sure?
I’m 99% sure that we wouldn’t have had to have given up that pick to the Celtics until 2 years after we gave up our pick to the Clippers.
right, the conditions would not have been exercised this year
however, the link is meant to illustrate the timberwolves’ retrieving full ownership of the pick the shipped boston.
i’m certainly open to ideas on presenting data, just let me know any ideas you have.
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This correct
The pick we got back from Boston wouldn’t have gone to the Celts until 2 years after the Clippers pick was conveyed. And…and it was set to revert to a 2nd rounder if conveyed after the 2011 draft (guaranteed with us keeping it this year). So…the pick would have been a future 2nd rounder.
Yep
I remember at the time of the trade thinking that McHale valued getting that first rounder back way too highly since there was a strong chance it would have ended up a 2nd rounder anyways. I wonder if we could have excluded that pick in order to turn Telfair into Rondo. I doubt it but who knows.
Dang, that would've been cool
On the other hand, no way does Rondo become Rondo with crap teammates, a coaching carousel, and no shooters to protect his complete inability there. That said, compared to a pick that would’ve probably been a second rounder, ouch.
Hitting the big time....
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Cool
'It's just noise coming out of an ugly scientist.' Michael Scott
Just noticed this as well
Congrats on having your work and ingenuity recognized and lauded. Hope your server can handle the traffic.
Wolves History?
Have you done the entire Wolves history or have you thought about doing it?
organic through and through
I have done a more thorough Wolves one.
The link in the article: http://www.canishoopus.com/2009/3/3/778628/those-who-ignore-history-a
It’s always a work in progress though. The further back you go, the more complex (and sometimes unreadable) the chart becomes.
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Excellent
Shows very handily how the current roster got constructed. I went back a little further to show more transactions (and details, incl. management changes) for the Blazers over a longer timeframe, but that makes it somewhat harder to read, handle and research. I thought about adding another decade, but currently I don’t have the time so I just updated it (will have to add two short-term contracts from the injury exceptions).
In the past I’ve used special applications to handle highly complex charts like that to show relations in processes (or IT landscapes). That might be used to even show cross-connections between teams, but it would probably be quite some work to set up. A site like prosportstransactions might use it to sit on top of their database and visualize it if they were so inclined, they have all the data.
Fellow Blazers blog Bustabucket has done a very nice visualization of all player transfers in the last summer that looks artistically pleasing, like a dreamcatcher. Yet that also would become too crowded when doing it over a long timeframe.
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