# Statlas

**Year:** 2013 (original); ongoing as a graphic archive
**Role:** Cofounder; product and design
**Client:** Self
**Tags:** stories-and-dataviz, personal-projects
**Case study:** /work/statlas
**Live archive:** https://statlas.co

In 2013, I quit my day job to cofound a sports media + analytics startup, on the
thesis that data visualization would change sports coverage. We launched an app
with realtime infographics of every MLB game — the page itself was the box score,
updating live as the game played out.

Realtime sports dataviz on consumer surfaces was uncommon then — even on the
broadcasts from the main networks.

![Statlas — MLB game on tablet](/work/statlas/statlas--tablet.jpg)

Y Combinator flew us out to Mountain View to interview for the W14 batch; I sat
down with Justin Kan. The app picked up organic press:

> "The prettiest MLB box scores you can find."
> — [Deadspin](https://deadspin.com/the-prettiest-online-mlb-box-scores-are-now-updated-liv-1576430193)

> "Geometric beauty similar to a good city transit map."
> — [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/3020557/baseball-games-beautifully-visualized-like-transit-maps)

Then we ran out of runway :)  — So many lessons learned.

A few years after the project shut down, my brother-in-law Chris Ring — a fan of
the original — rebuilt the baseball app and added new features. That's the
version still live at [statlas.co](https://statlas.co) today: a graphic archive
of every MLB game in history.

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