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NBA - Salary vs Performance
This parallel coordinates chart maps the win total of all National Basketball Association teams to its 2009 salary. Teams are listed in order of the total wins for the 2009 season. A red line indicates a team that showed poor performance wrt salary while a blue line shows a team that is doing well wrt salary. The line steepness indicates how well or poorly a team is performing wrt salary. The table on the right serves as an icon legend but also ranks teams based on how much a team spent per win. It shows that the Trail Blazers paid just over $1M USD while the Kings paid over 4 times as much per win. Inspiration for this was derived from a study of MLB teams that Ben Fry performed. Data was pulled from USA Today Salaries Database and NBA.com
NBA - Salary vs Performance
This parallel coordinates chart maps the win total of all National Basketball Association teams to its 2009 salary. Teams are listed in order of the total wins for the 2009 season. A red line indicates a team that showed poor performance wrt salary while a blue line shows a team that is doing well wrt salary. The line steepness indicates how well or poorly a team is performing wrt salary. The table on the right serves as an icon legend but also ranks teams based on how much a team spent per win. It shows that the Trail Blazers paid just over $1M USD while the Kings paid over 4 times as much per win. Inspiration for this was derived from a study of MLB teams that Ben Fry performed. Data was pulled from USA Today Salaries Database and NBA.com