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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5146507, member: 12088"] I think I love this reply to my original post. It’s delightfully perverse as a reading of what I said. Of course, you had to know I meant that simple stats often fail to give a complete enough picture of what players are doing on the court, and this partiality is exacerbated when comparing players from different eras. And you also had to know that I wasn’t trying to diminish Maya’s accomplishments. She’s my favorite Husky, even though Stewie’s record is much higher. :D:D:D This isn’t to say that tracking statistics isn’t entertaining for fans or useful for coaches. But it is hardly the “whole purpose of sport.” This sort of debater’s mentality is precisely why I think statistical comparisons across different eras tend not to be very enlightening, and can even be distracting. In this case, it’s led you to construct a straw man out of my remarks in order to refute it. There’s way more entertaining things to do than to try to refute people on a web forum. [/QUOTE]