Everyone knows that the major league baseball teams that spend the most money end up performing the best, right? Well, in 2008 it isn't working out quite like that.
A stat geek named Ben Fry has put together a pretty cool looking graphic that orders each team's record and payroll, and it's pretty clear that, in the season's first month, there's about zero correlation between salary expense and performance. They also have graphics for the previous three seasons, I can't get them to show on my screen, but your computer may be more advanced than mine.
It's still very early in the season, so it's hard to read too much into this analysis, but it's still an interesting item to keep an eye on.
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