The more you win, the more you makeBaseball season is in full swing: fans of the United States' traditional national <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/19521088'>pasttime</a> are flocking to stadiums and TV sets all across the country to get in on the action. Over 160 years since the first official game recorded took place fans are still wild about the peanuts and Cracker Jack, the bases the races, the homers, the strike outs, the ball and the bat. This graph shows the “historical data relating <font color='#5E015E'>team winning percentages and salary levels (team salary as a percentage of the league's mean salary)</font>.” The <a href='http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1001770'>data</a> was found by user <a href='http://www.swivel.com/users/show/1000978'>mattsly</a>. Another interesting link to number of wins is the <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/20544061'>amount that a stadium is filled</a>: it seems to boost moral. Further, with <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/19129784'>more experience</a> comes better batting averages.648030.0Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:24:39 -0700Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:31:13 -0700seemaScatterGraphdefaultTEAM SALARY AS PCT. OF LEAGUE MEAN SALARY