Confession: I am addicted to so-called "fantasy" sports (true fantasy would be me actually playing at the pro level; crunching stats and trash talking with my fellow sports nerds is reality). As such, I find myself regularly disappointed by the mind-numbing spreadsheets that pass for fantasy sports coverage by a growing number of 'zines and sites.
Along comes the August 2008 issue of ESPN The Magazine's "A College Football Fan's Guide to the Galaxy" -- a smorgasbord of "data porn" the likes of which I haven't seen in sports journalism before (or since...the September issue reverts back to tables and tables of numbers).
Each of the 28 pieces of information design in the guide combines multiple data points to communicate a single idea in an elegant and supremely legible way. It's an art, which is why you see one researcher and three designers credited on the article.
Sam Cannon
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