I chose to use percentage of salary because the articles I referenced spoke about the issue in terms of money wasted… and I didn’t want to look at total money lost because there would obviously be some noise there since large market teams are likely to hand out bigger contracts, making themselves susceptible to bigger losses.

In hindsight, I agree that this is probably not the best way to present the data. For example, Milwaukee was regarded as the second-best team at taking advantage of injury prevention/recovery but, in my graph, they get placed in the middle. Perhaps your (and Steve’s) suggestion to break down the data in terms of trips to the DL and days lost to injury would better represent teams’ ability in this area.

I highly encourage you (or Steve) to read through the discussion that I linked to at The Book’s blog… Sky Kalkman did something with the data that I didn’t quite follow. Maybe one of you can help me out.