The BBC Sport Chronicles: Part 2

Just wanted to write a quick blog on the gift which keeps on giving, the BBC Sport data visualisation team.

Drawing from this article by Phil McNulty (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43463551), there is a section where McNulty focusses on the conundrum around England goalkeepers, and who should wear the number 1 jersey at the World Cup.

And as part of this piece, was this wonderful bar chart;



The data is from opta, and each goalkeeper is grouped by the relevant number used. However;

1. How easy is it for me to compare the goalkeepers for clean sheets?
2. How easy is it for me to remember which colour bar refers to which metric?
3. What is the takeaway message here?

Of course, I then had a go at "re-vizzing" this, using the following data structure.

Metric	Player	Value
Appearance	Butland	27
Clean sheets	Butland	5
Goals conceded	Butland	49
Appearance	Hart	15
Clean sheets	Hart	3
Goals conceded	Hart	33
Appearance	Pickford	30
Clean sheets	Pickford	7
Goals conceded	Pickford	49
Appearance	Pope	27
Clean sheets	Pope	10
Goals conceded	Pope	22

Here's my process of revisualising this data.

The above changes are simple and help clear the purpose of the visualisation up - As well as helping the reader interpret the data more quickly and easily.