{"id":957,"date":"2019-12-18T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2019-12-19T03:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T03:38:06","slug":"visual-depiction-of-mens-top-10-rankings-historically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/18\/visual-depiction-of-mens-top-10-rankings-historically\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual depiction of Men&#8217;s top 10 rankings historically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fun stuff; Visual depiction of Men&#8217;s top 10 rankings historically<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have any of you seen those cool &#8220;Racing Bar Charts&#8221; that show stuff like population growth over time per country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, thanks to a great suggestion from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jsamezcua?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARDCEUO6MLxk9upkjrQlINP52MvaMco_p5Cj0l1MCwHLTioCpRO6weClkVfqnzSuaKggaPIDm3aspQfZ&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAd3_F09wVL3jdO0CC2VLFg3Q2qLQOp6NbLxtkVdBnS-5hREqNmXYCnTksntoRN3XfSXB1ob-0PqZsT4hPuMZtaCo8LFOKj6GtKZqIIXU4jp-aruwioZajKEps26yJJe8HWUSA7xNsEw_7aXi8qRKx3gwJVpPbmvvi73bIU4a_9qS76ceo5Bx329xfrmqh-xy1bHfPo3QHTtLowUpYAHrV0aZRPKKlC7aXlosi0gEoWfjnl7EZTdUPej3XrY0XeLbPf8NCQOIxgWMY2wfa9amMfaBjAKR26UA68RSSljV9IrcKJA6wIkDWlU1nrmNTkLyjsg1UURKJOyXsz3sjS7EU\">Jessica Swartz Amezcua<\/a>, I found a site that lets you create these visualizations for free and created some one-off data spreadsheets and came up with this cool graphic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/1113648\/embed#?secret=9Hrr5vV91f\" data-secret=\"9Hrr5vV91f\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"525\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look, it shows the ebb and flow of all players ranked in the top 10 over time. It starts in the 1974-5 season, the first official &#8220;pro&#8221; tour season, and leverages results at the DP\/Leach Nationals for the first few seasons to determine the top 10. In 1981-82, we had a points race for the top 10 for the first time, and have had it ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fun fact: in the entire history of the pro tour, now covering more than 45 years &#8230; there&#8217;s only been a grand total of 79 distinct players who have finished in the top 10 in a given season on tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, take a look at the visualization; its pretty cool. I&#8217;ll do something similar for the Ladies next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/racquetballtour\/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA7Xlb5VDk5vK0jyFcXX-QojSq2YrzkGABsWmaUoIWz_t4fOLrnP33RgN1jvcbc6tnbMwvZsCOiGFq3HfsjKkXT6XNOQwirXvEQNGy2YPTrrfY1wWrhhGPBTeftY049PIoCuny2tcCb46fPs2Kli7YJOHWMb9xn51Pw6O_Ci-DEkT183oZgZULkDqTLkUqWGTTQPKS5ogO4lYVUMr7DlAgyoQ2UNhG7EXgS15K2Z0PCpJtCIJbBrOXRqwUZWBHEm_LKQrO9DOGVX62jjo6qmPYrlXiyNH_AaB7hn4fzDv1Qtqp7y6SYmpvX3awseHTWyHRw3be90hW7EfCPXxxXaiM&amp;__xts__%5B1%5D=68.ARAd3_F09wVL3jdO0CC2VLFg3Q2qLQOp6NbLxtkVdBnS-5hREqNmXYCnTksntoRN3XfSXB1ob-0PqZsT4hPuMZtaCo8LFOKj6GtKZqIIXU4jp-aruwioZajKEps26yJJe8HWUSA7xNsEw_7aXi8qRKx3gwJVpPbmvvi73bIU4a_9qS76ceo5Bx329xfrmqh-xy1bHfPo3QHTtLowUpYAHrV0aZRPKKlC7aXlosi0gEoWfjnl7EZTdUPej3XrY0XeLbPf8NCQOIxgWMY2wfa9amMfaBjAKR26UA68RSSljV9IrcKJA6wIkDWlU1nrmNTkLyjsg1UURKJOyXsz3sjS7EU&amp;__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARAHZSu8elz4q6Oe9xOmnD7Din5Pr3F28_jDqa7Z-IQG8b1p_-jTfgcmjuPNGm_Cej43Jy7_lxKShx8M&amp;fref=mentions\">International Racquetball Tour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun stuff; Visual depiction of Men&#8217;s top 10 rankings historically Have any of you seen those cool &#8220;Racing Bar Charts&#8221; that show stuff like population growth over time per country? Well, thanks to a great suggestion from&nbsp;Jessica Swartz Amezcua, I found a site that lets you create these visualizations for free and created some one-off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/18\/visual-depiction-of-mens-top-10-rankings-historically\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visual depiction of Men&#8217;s top 10 rankings historically&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,7],"tags":[653,12],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irt","category-prs-admin","category-singles","tag-jessica-swartz-amezcua","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}