Though a bit late to the party, finally done with a racing bar chart with Bangladesh Premier League Football 2019 points table.

Steps taken:

• Scraped match data from web
• Lots of cleansing and munging specially to interpolate a smooth transition between numbers
• Animation (easy part)
• Animation compression to save loading time (most time consuming)

Tools used:

• Mostly R with image optimization done with several node.js packages