The map of CoD careers
Every player with two or more major wins, placed so that distance means similarity: the closer two dots sit, the more alike their careers. It's a flattened view of the same era-independent résumé distance behind the comps on each player's page. Hover or tap a dot for a résumé; click it to draw its closest matches.
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Archetypes
How the map is built
Nothing is plotted against a stat here. Every pair of players gets a résumé distance (the same one the player pages use to find comps), and the map solves for positions that reproduce all of those distances at once, the way you'd rebuild a map of cities from a table of the miles between them. So the only thing that's exact is distance: dots that sit close together have similar careers. The method is classical multidimensional scaling, and era is never part of the distance, which is why a 2013 and a 2023 career can land side by side.
What the axes mean
The two directions aren't chosen. They fall out as the axes that separate players the most.
- Left → right is overall achievement. It tracks adjusted wins (r = .93), peak, finals rate and win conversion together. Weaker résumés sit left, the all-time greats right.
- Up ↔ down is career style. Efficient, peak-heavy careers sit high; long, many-team, accumulator careers sit low.
Left-right holds most of the signal, so read it first and treat up-down as a hint. Flattening ten résumé stats into two directions keeps about 70% of the real distances, so near usually means similar but isn't a guarantee. For the exact comparison, use the comps and metric table on a player's page. The four colors are k-medoid groupings: handy labels, but the data is really a gradient, not four clean tribes.