Worldcup 2010 final Sankey

phineas — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:00:24 +0000

Following up to my last post after the knockout of the 2010 FIFA world cup. Well, things have cooled down a bit now, so here is the completed Sankey diagram showing the tournaments goals.

As one commenter put it, you can “see that Spain’s road to success is a rather boring one (a thin line of 1:0 wins) while Germany was pretty inefficient (big lines, no gain).”

Drawing this was fun, although I was not happy to see my favourite team drop out in the quarter finals already…

In doing the Sankey diagram I found it difficult to handle null flows (that is, explicit zeros, not “no value”) in a Sankey diagram. Also I am not happy with the differentiation of regular goals and penalty goals (brown Sankey arrows). Maybe I’ll come up with a different presentation in time before the 2014 worldcup in Brazil….

Worldcup 2010 knockout sankeyfied

phineas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:18:02 +0000

Inspired by the diagram on the knockout stage of the 2010 FIFA worldcup, I just had the idea to “sankeyfy” it. The width of the Sankey arrow represents the number of goals scored. Penalty goals are shown in different color (brown), but to scale.

Now I have to run for the Brazil-Netherlands match….
Will update this diagram after the quarter-finals…

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Worldcup 2010 final Sankey

Worldcup 2010 knockout sankeyfied