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Making the playoffs costs money
With baseball’s playoffs coming up soon, I thought it would be a good time to dust off a project I started back in April. Every year there are a handful of articles written about how the wild card has brought competitive balance to baseball, which most fans of the game know is an absurd statement. I did a little digging into the numbers from 1995 (the year the wild card format officially began) until 2011 (the last year of the single wild card). The results are startling only in how much money actually matters. Below are some rough graphs. I’ll try to finish them up before the playoffs begin.
Looking at the data, there was clearly bigger gaps that simply “rich teams” and “poor teams” and so I tried to take a systematic approach in dividing the teams into groups. For each year, I found the average team payroll and the standard deviation from that average, and then bracketed teams based on how many standard deviations from the average they fell in either direction: teams that were within one standard deviation above the average were called simply “Above Average Teams”, teams within one standard deviation below the average were called “Below Average Teams”, and so on.
Global Tiger Initiative
In the summer of 2010 I helped develop this video along with Pikkles Creative for the Global Tiger Initiative. I came up with the initial concept which was then refined by Pikkles and the very talented animator who put it all together. (Who’s name I unfortunately cannot find anywhere online. I’ll keep looking!)
Winter Carnival 2012 in Harvard Square!
New poster for the Winter Carnival in Harvard Square! They always put on fun events so make sure you get over there and have some fun.
Beautiful WOAO? T-Shirts!
Did I mention that I designed some t-shirts for What’s Organic About Organic? No? Because I did! And now you can buy them just in time for the holidays, along with a lovely WOAO? DVD. It is of course printed on organic cotton with eco-friendly inks. What a nice gift that would make…
Sparklefest 2010!
This year’s poster! Should be a fun series of events, us usual. Be sure to check it out, and head to harvardsquare.com for more info!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… Your Art
Ha! Look at this: a post from three months ago that I never published. Sorry blog! Sorry internet!
All the hardcore Georg fans out there already noticed this, but for the casual audience out there I thought I’d just go ahead and point this out: the new poster I just made for the Harvard Square Business Association features art I made nine years ago. Check it out!
Havana Restaurant Project
I made this guy for a class assignment, I think my Junior year of college? I think it was a poster or menu or something for a fun and sassy restaurant. I always liked this but never got to use it for anything.
Harvard Square MayFair
And now here we are in 2010 and they are still partying! I spent all morning drawing rather scary-looking square people and realized this was a way better solution. I also drew these little guys! (But they were rejected, sadface.)
Oktoberfest '09
Another poster for the Harvard Square Business Association. Apparently this one is going to be an ad wrap for the Metro. I’ll let you know when that is.
Harry and the Potters (dotcom) update
Did some updating to the Harry and the Potters site. Same design but some more bells and whistles. Hopefully more to come!
http://harryandthepotters.com
New T-shirts
Added some more shirts and some other stuff to mysoti.com Check them out! http://www.mysoti.com/mysoti/designer/georg
If you’re reading this there’s a good chance you’ve seen some of these images before. That is because I am big into sustainability and believe in reusing as much of my work as possible. And I’m lazy.