A better way to visualize hitters' stats.

As I was poring over 2006 stats for the A's, something hit me. The lines of numbers that I was looking at weren't really giving me an easy visual comparison. I wanted to know how the hitter's numbers stacked up against his teammates, and the league averages. It wasn't easy to just glance at the numbers and see it right away.

So I came up with this system.

[follow the link to see the image]

UPDATE

Here's a new look for the graphic

http://thepastime.net/2006/10/statline-graphic-update.html