League Ranking Position over time

[Anonymous]

I have a Power BI report for our work Fantasy Football (Soccer, not Gridiron) league. I have various representations of the data including a league table and analysis of performance by site and department. I have one tab in the report that shows the relative performance of teams over time.

I would like to have a similar portrayal of the data but instead of the lines tracing cumulative points over the course of the season I would like to show the individual teams ranking week on week, as in the data shown in the first image above. Would that be possible and which Visualisation would be the best one to use to bring this data to life?

[PaulDBrown]

Make sure the visual is sorted by Week in ascending order

[PaulDBrown · Accepted solution]

Assuming the data depicted is the actually weekly rank by team, first you will need to unpivot the columns for week and rank.

You can then set up your visuals with whatever preference you have. Here are a couple of options, albeit with some weaknesses.

A stepped line chart with an inverted Y axis to show rank 1 the highest (which is what you would expect for a rank)

The problem is that if there is too much data it looks pretty messy

But it can work to compare a couple of teams:

If you want to show a larger number of teams, maybe the same line chart but shown either in a non-stepped format

or shown as small multiples. Add conditional formatting to highlight each week's number 1 and you get:

I've attached the sample PBIX file

Edit: Just thought I'd showcase another option which has some dynamism. You can use a scatter chart with a play axis for the weeks to get this:

[Anonymous]

Paul - I used your solution and it is close to what I am looking to achieve. When all teams are included the Line Chart shows for the weeks in sequential order, however if I select a single player it results in the week order being subverted as per this example, this resolves if I select more than one player, any ideas why it should be doing this?

[Anonymous]

Paul - I am bowled over by the amount of time and effort you have put into answering my question, your suggestions look to be bang on the money and I am looking forward to implementing them. We have 65 teams in our league so I am going to include a couple of slicers to limit population by player, site, department.

[Caz_16]

@Anonymous 

As a fellow Fantasy Footballer (American football though for me), let me present my solution. 

First, I recommend putting your data into the following format. It will be much easier for PBI to work with your data. 

Team	Week	Points
1	1	3
2	1	2
3	1	1
1	2	2
2	2	3
3	2	1
1	3	1
2	3	3
3	3	2

From there, you can create a "Bump Chart", I have included my example below. This is a great way to show rank. You can customize it to be fat lines with no circles, or use my example of fat circles at each week and skinny lines between. Totally up to you. Here is another good link to a website that discusses bump charts in PBI. https://www.syntelli.com/how-to-make-bump-charts-in-power-bi-tutorial 

You need 2 easy functions for this visual with the data style I showed above:

A running total for the week, which you seem to already have.

Running Points Total = 
VAR MaxWeek=
MAX('Table'[Week])
RETURN
CALCULATE(
    [Sum of Points],
    'Table'[Week] <= MaxWeek
)

 And a RANKX to calculate the rank for each team. The visual will break it up by week for you.

Running Rank = 
RANKX(
    ALLSELECTED('Table'[Team]),
    [Running Points Total]
)

Let me know if you need any further help and I hope this works for you and your fantasy league. Good luck to you!

-Caz

[aj1973]

Hi @Anonymous 

Clustered Column chart is good