JackAstros wrote this in response to a flawed and misquided attempt by a fantasy baseball writer attempt at a 3 dimensional player position defensive spectrum:
This may be one of the most deeply flawed and misguided information graphics I have ever seen. I can't even decide which part is most horrifying:
A) The fact that it's referred to as being three dimensional, but the information is represented in only 2 dimensions (and even that much is artificial). Oh, and the idea that one of the defensive options for a catcher is to simply get old.
or B) The fact that the author states that the actual information portrayed is entirely inaccurate, but that can't be helped because then it wouldn't look right. (And yet it still manages to look like my dog got into a box of colored plastic arrows and took a shit on a cheap map I'd been saving since the early 80s.)
Actually, I think it's C) The lack of any sort of legend or explanation of what the hell any of this is supposed to mean, combined with A, B, and the conclusion that the guy is pretty happy with the result. It inspired me to make my own exciting 3-D representation of The In-Game Snack Spectrum. There's no data on the y-axis, but it does use the grid from Tron, which is about as awesomely three-dimensional as it gets. Feng shui doesn't have shit on Tron, son.
