Patriots Vs. Seahawks: The Big Game by the Numbers

Nobody knows what will happen when the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots take the field on Sunday for Super Bowl XLIX.  But thanks to data analytics, we can get an idea how certain aspects of the teams match up.

In these two visualizations from Tableau Software, we can see how the Patriots and Seahawks line up against each other. In the first viz (below), the data shows the Pats’ offense and the Hawk’s defense are clearly the superior units. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything on game day, but it’s still a useful comparison.

  In the second viz, Tableau takes us throw some of the highlights of the AFC and NFC championship games.  According to Tableau, this viz shows how the probability that each team was going to win changed throughout the course of the game. It also has sweet video clips of plays that led to big swings in the probability. Enjoy!