Good catch. In the Visualizing Data book, Fry notes that he's using the lower-salaried team as the tiebreaker, and I took that as fact and didn't check the data

Good catch. In the Visualizing Data book, Fry notes that he's using the lower-salaried team as the tiebreaker, and I took that as fact and didn't check the data (sigh; rookie mistake). I'll point that out in the article when I update it.