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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4465045, member: 181"] Three separate times this week I've seen references to certain players being "light-years" better than others in one aspect of the game or another. I realize that it's a mixed metaphor to apply a distance measurement to basketball prowess, but I invite further consider that the distance traveled by light at the speed of >186,000 feet per second, extended across an entire year, is pretty far. How far? [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot_20221212-210647.png"]81871[/ATTACH] In order to say "light-years," which is plural, you would, at bare minimum, need to double that number. In order to make the resulting minimum number more realistic or comprehensible to a basketball fan, I'd propose dividing it by 94, because a basketball court is 94 feet in length. In this way, one could express how much better one basketball player was than another in a more familiar and more easily understood fashion. "Oh yeah, he's 33 x 10 to the 16th power basketball courts better a passer than that other guy." Much better, right? I hope that this suggestion is helpful, particularly for those more comfortable overall than I am with a distance measurement to compare players' abilities. Perhaps it can gain traction and become popular in some way akin to the beloved "Hilton unit" for measuring a person's height. [/QUOTE]