Team Comparison Feature

[kq76]

Similar to the Player Comparison feature, I'd love to see a Team Comparison feature.

While you don't see this very often for baseball (you do for other sports), I always like seeing a side-by-side vertical comparison of teams. I foresee it broken down by position and groups of positions like baseballref, but vertical and only 2 teams at a time. And like OOTP's Player Comparison, you could have drop-downs that compare different things like different stats or ratings and of course one or more that aren't broken down by position but have various team stats instead.

The idea came to me as I reviewing my team before a playoff matchup, reading the upcoming opponent message and looking at the playoff coverage screen, I thought, "doesn't the game already have a better team matchup screen?", and I'd realized that it doesn't.

Imagine getting one of those messages now with a link to this new feature. That'd be great, especially for the playoffs!

I can also imagine you could use this feature to compare 2 historical teams and then, optionally, play a game or series between them as an exhibition.

Attached below is an example from last year's WS of kind of what I mean. I was more thinking just 3 columns with each team's stats on either side of the label column in the middle, but I do actually really dig the spectrum at the top of their offensive and defensive rankings.

You can actually create something a bit like this from the Lg > Statistics > Team Statistics > Sortable Stats screen, but it takes some work setting it up (the key part is to create a custom OR filter) and it ends up being in a horizontal layout rather than the nice vertical layout you'll see tv do. And the options are rather limited, like you can't show rankings, only what is available from the view options. I'll attach a pic of that too.

The last attachment is an image of the player comparison screen in case anyone is unsure of what I meant. But just imagine it populated with stats of two teams instead of two players.