#Makeover Monday wk 29 – NBA Team Salaries vs Cap

For #MakeoverMonday week 29, Andy shared the viz from What’s the Cap? and it was designed by whatsthecapIt was about NBA Team salaries and Salary cap since 1985-86. 

Here is the original viz :

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Data is available on data.world and source of data was Celtics Hub

Whats good?

  • Interactive tooltips to know the max, min and average salaries and actual salary cap
  • Clean time-series data with 3 distinct lines for highest, average and lowest payroll with bar chart to plot the salary cap which depicts the trend over last 32 seasons
  • Clear Y-axis labeling
  • Use of different colors for each line and bar with legend to distinguish each other

Here is what I did:

  • First of all I used the Andy’s Franchise mapping, since the teams have moved cities and changed their names over last 30 years.
  • I wanted to show all the teams which helps in comparisons and I finalized on bar chart.
  • Added indicator line for salary cap to see how many franchises adhere to salary cap and how many spent above salary cap
  • I wanted to compare franchises salary vs salary cap each season hence I introduced the filter for season
  • Added tooltip and text label to show the variance in Teams salary vs salary cap

Here is the Image of the visualisation I created (Click on image to get interactive version):

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