Notes: Data depicts Lions WRs with very distinct types

Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports Seth Walder at ESPN Analytics posted a very cool plot on Wednesday with a Twitter thread explaining the process by which he arrived at it. First, here is the chart:

Want to share more half-baked/unfinished projects. So take this as that.

Going to share this chart here and then I'll thread how I got there. Then we can find out if I did something wrong, too!

Also: Tyler Lockett remains a legend. pic.twitter.com/YNYm5WC2Vm

— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) July 30, 2020 The Y-axis is a normalized scale showing how much more or less than other receivers in comparable situations would be expected to catch the ball. A major issue with figuring out if a receiver making contested…