Keeping player qualities coherent within rows is certainly an important aspect that I mostly didn’t consider when making the chart. As I said in the piece, my main criteria when structuring the rows/columns within each group was quality of player and quality of character/personality. So, ideally, the best player, talent and character wise, would be in the top right, with players to his left and below him close to him in one or both of those aspects. Willie Stargell, for example, moves far to the right for his character, while Catfish Hunter moves far to the left because, while being a good character guy, his talent just wasn’t enough.

It’s not quite as scientific as what you propose, and maybe not as good, but that was my thought process.

For example, within the 500 HR club, I would try to have the players roughly sorted into columns by defensive position and then within the column by defensive skill. So Ernie Banks, the only shortstop in the group, would be alone as Boron. Then Killebrew, Mathews, and Schmidt, the players with time at third, would be Carbon, Silicon, and Germanium. The next column would have Murray, Foxx, McCovey, and Mantle, while the final column would have Williams, Ott, Robinson, Aaron, and Mays.