From #baseballsavant to #Tableau; Part IV of a step-by-step for Batters #baseball #visualization #pitchFx

It has been a few weeks, but this article continuous the explanation on how to work with baseball savant data in Tableau. Due to time restrictions and as this describes a dashboard that uses pretty much what I explained in previous parts, this will not have many steps.

After the amazing playoff-like game between the Yankees and Cubs I wanted to just play with the data a little. I downloaded the baseball Savant data, filtered out all other teams, and combined them with Crunch master data to get player names*. In Tableau you can build these relationships after loading both data sets, going to the Data menu > Edit relationships and specify the fields to link on.

When that is done it was not too hard to create the individual sheets that make up the dashboard:

(see dashboard in Tableau Public)

It uses the pitch locations to show the strikezone graph (hcX and hcY) and the batted ball locations shown in part two of this series.

Actions in the dashboard make it more user friendly.

That's all I have time for, for now!
RJ


* Crunchtime baseball has an amzing baseball player map with MLB players and their IDs, names, positions etc. in MLB, Fangraphs, Yahoo, CBS, etc. It's a fantastic resource for linking data.