Baseball Toaster: Cub Town : Name That Hitter!

Name That Hitter!

2007-02-08 18:15

by Phil Bencomo

Sparklines are a work of genius with a near-limitless number of uses. Like guessing games, for instance.

News has been slow as of late, and it probably won't pick up until next week. So, in preparation for a brand new season, how about we keep that brain of yours sharp?

Your mission is simple: Name the hitter, based on the following chart (each line is a game played in 2006; gray means a hitless game, and the red lines correspond to the number of hits recorded in that game):

Comments

2007-02-08 21:36:58

1. Ryan Armbrust

Sparklines are pretty damn great. Thanks for the hat-tip there. The real credit should go to Edward Tufte, though.

Oh, and I've guessed who the player is, but I won't reveal it yet so other folks can take a swing at it. There's a South Park reference in the answer...

2007-02-08 22:13:15

2. Sandus

Jacque Jones

2007-02-09 00:16:38

3. Voxter

Well, if I'm reading it correctly, just one four-hit game. I'm not enough of a database wizard to figure this out, though.

2007-02-09 03:13:57

4. Ken Arneson

There's some strange kind of illusion going on here--maybe it's the exclamation point that does it--but every time I see the title of this article, I see "Name That Hitler!" and I picture in my mind some weird Monty Python game show sketch.

2007-02-09 03:51:09

5. cubshub

That is the hitting chart of Matt Murton...

How did you create that image? Seems like a fun game, but very time consumming!

2007-02-09 03:54:31

6. Ryan Armbrust

4 No no no, it's Mr Hilter, not Hitler... Anyway, I don't like the sound of these 'ere boncentration bamps.

http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode12.htm#4

2007-02-09 09:17:31

7. Todd S

#4 Whew! I thought I was the only one and it said something disturbing about me.

2007-02-09 10:12:48

8. Phil Bencomo

5 Correct. It's Murton.

I discovered Sparklines via Mr. Armbrust. The image was generated here:

http://bitworking.org/projects/sparklines/

Neat stuff.

2007-02-09 13:02:03

9. Ryan Armbrust

Just to follow up, the South Park reference I was going to make earlier was that Matt Murton is a ginger kid...