1,000 Words About Pitt

Posted on by Mike Coffey

Relax, they won’t be my words. And they won’t even be words.

Keeping in mind the old saying about pictures, we here at NDNation are working with a group called FanAlytix. They’ve come up with a neat new graphic called Game View 360 that will tell you everything you need to know about how a game went in one easy package.

The graphic tells the story of the entire game, giving a quick overview of the game flow while also allowing you to dive deeper and discover more details. Version 1 graphics are static, but the future versions will have interactive elements, real-tiem updates, and a full spectrum of games.

Their first ND graphic for the game against Pitt can be found at this link:

CLICK HERE FOR THE GRAPHIC

Directly below the image on that page are the directions on how to read it, but we’ll link that page HERE for ease of use.

Take a look at it, and let us know what you think in the Comments section below. We figured it’s a cool way to analyze the game, and might be able to get similar graphics for Irish hoops games and more.

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9 thoughts on “1,000 Words About Pitt”

  1. John Mosier says:

    A graphic that requires more than 20 boxes to explain it is a rather complex graphic. Doesn’t do it for me.

  2. TERRENCE O'KEEFE says:

    Well I can tell you I wouldn’t bother with it. Just don’t need to dive deep into all the nuances of how a game went. I watched the game, I know all I need to know. Stuff like this is for people who think they are coaches IMHO.

  3. Bill Walsh says:

    I have 2 engineering degrees….data isn’t a problem for me. I admire the effort to create a graphic game summary—I love the NYT and WP use of graphics to explain/summarize issues. However, the simple box scores of a game I.e. yards passing, attempts/completions are enough for me to understand the game (yep, I know you can rationalize that this is what I’m familiar with).
    Bottom line: I would not spend any time on this.

  5. Jim Pattison says:

    I would prefer to see a line that shows play by play yards instead of a block showing all yards gained in a possession

  6. Patrick says:

    Looks like I’m going to go against the grain here. I like the graphic a lot. It doesn’t take a lot of time to figure out how to read it and tells the possession-to-possession (and length of possession) story that you don’t get from a box score.

    The one part I would change is that the % of running/passing plays compares this between the teams. I would rather see those 2 replaced with a run vs. pass percentages for one particular team.

  8. Chris says:

    What’s with all the ads and the video at the top of the page? Requires viewing 10 commercials to actually view the video. Your home written “articles” are not doing it for me any more.

    • Mike Coffey says:

      There is no video to view. If you scroll down, you will see a big “click here” link that will take you to the image.