Baseball Games Beautifully Visualized Like Transit Maps

The baseball box score you see in the sports pages of your local newspaper is almost as old as baseball itself, and for good reason. From a design perspective, the box score is a masterpiece of statistical plain–text austerity: a four–hour–long battle between two teams full of bat–wielding titans distilled down to maybe a dozen lines of newsprint.

It takes a long time, and a lot of trial and error, to design a system that can convey information as efficiently as a box score can. But that's not to say that the box score can't be improved for the 21st century. Just in time for the World Series, Statlas is a new site trying to do just that with some modern design mojo and a dash of Sabermetrics.

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One of the things that is so satisfying about sports statistics is the way that, just by looking at a lineup of names and numbers, they can be used to relive the pulse–pounding excitement and tension of a great game. Unfortunately, while there are a lot of good sites out there that crunch the data for sports fans, they don't often do it in a way that is visually appealing or straightforward.

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