Here’s another Friday afternoon sports chart for you. Who has held the post-merger passing record in the NFL over time? It should be no surprise that the names at the top of the list now are mostly active or recently retired. The NFL is a passing league, and more so with each season’s rule changes.
Enjoy this chart, which begins in 1970 and does not include yards accumulated in the old AFL or pre-merger NFL.
I wrote about Supreme Court justices’ life tenure the other day, and it’s a topic that seems to come up a lot. So I made this chart of the justices’ tenure over time, from the first appointees of the Washington administration until today.
No new article today, so it’s time for some more charts. In this one, I tracked baseball’s leading strikeout leaders over time. Enjoy!
Time for another sports graph! This time, let’s look at football. Specifically, which NFL team has the most regular season wins since the NFL-AFL merger of 1970? That time period started out well for the Miami Dolphins, but it ended…well, see for yourselves.
Bonus chart!
After yesterday’s chart of hits leaders through time, I wondered how it would look if we counted Ichiro Suzuki’s hits in Japanese baseball and American baseball. The result is below.
Should we do this? No. Japanese baseball is a high-level league, but no respectable analyst would say JPB is the equivalent of MLB. It is still fun to imagine, though, what would’ve happened if Ichiro had signed with the Seattle Mariners in 1992 instead of the Orix Blue Wave.
More baseball charts! I put this one together of major league baseball’s hits leaders over time.
One thing that jumps out at me: even if every one of Hank Aaron’s 755 home runs had been an out, he still would have more than 3000 hits. Truly one of the all time greats.
I made this graphic of baseball’s home run leaders over time. It’s interesting to see how Ruth’s production just soared beyond the rest of the sport.