Stats vs. visual playing skill

**darkpower** · 09-12-2006, 03:57 AM

Sorrty if this debate has been posted before, but I thought this was a good debate.

You know the one. People always pay attention to an athlete's stats and numbers when picking particular players, like how many yards someone may get rushing in a football game in order to find out whether or not he would be a good running back, or how many turnovers, RBI's, steals, Ks, etc., a player may get in order to figure out his valubility.

But then there are those, like me, who don't like to pay attention to the stats that one player has. For one, they might be too confusing to remember who has what numbers, and where. And secondly, there is one stat that is the most important, and it's how many points the team that person belonged to had gotten. Is his stats helping his team out to win games, or is he being the star in vain while his team continues to suffer? Is he getting those numbers to just show off or getting them when he should?

And also, you can more or less, just by watching the guy play, if he is good enough to be a star or not. If he's striking out batters left and right, if he's moving his team down the field, those kinds of things. You don't need stats and numbers to find out if the guy is good or not. Just watch him actually do his job.

This has worked on a number of occasions. Not all people are stat people (like me, and FOX's Terry Bradshaw has also admitted that he doesn't pay attention to stats, and he's got a good eye).

Who pays attention to the stats, and who thinks stats are overrated?

09-12-2006, 03:57 AM	#1
darkpower Why So Curious? Posts: 3,408	Stats vs. visual playing skill Sorrty if this debate has been posted before, but I thought this was a good debate. You know the one. People always pay attention to an athlete's stats and numbers when picking particular players, like how many yards someone may get rushing in a football game in order to find out whether or not he would be a good running back, or how many turnovers, RBI's, steals, Ks, etc., a player may get in order to figure out his valubility. But then there are those, like me, who don't like to pay attention to the stats that one player has. For one, they might be too confusing to remember who has what numbers, and where. And secondly, there is one stat that is the most important, and it's how many points the team that person belonged to had gotten. Is his stats helping his team out to win games, or is he being the star in vain while his team continues to suffer? Is he getting those numbers to just show off or getting them when he should? And also, you can more or less, just by watching the guy play, if he is good enough to be a star or not. If he's striking out batters left and right, if he's moving his team down the field, those kinds of things. You don't need stats and numbers to find out if the guy is good or not. Just watch him actually do his job. This has worked on a number of occasions. Not all people are stat people (like me, and FOX's Terry Bradshaw has also admitted that he doesn't pay attention to stats, and he's got a good eye). Who pays attention to the stats, and who thinks stats are overrated?