Mapping out every World Series winner since 1969

World Series archetypes for each MLB champion since 1969, according to a K-means clustering analysis using various metrics relative to the league average from that season

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PC1 and PC2 are the 2-dimensional principal components that (mostly) represent how each team was sorted into different clusters.

Chart: Neil PaineSource: Baseball-Reference, FanGraphsGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper