Stats vs. visual playing skill

**Stickman** · 09-12-2006, 02:08 PM

Stats are extremely overrated. Let's take a goalie in hockey for example. Lets say the goalie is a backup who only plays no more than 15 games and gets thrown in there when the team is sucking infront of him. Goalie gets no warm up when he gets put in and the team is playing like shit, of course he's going to give up a couple goals. His save percentage for the game could be like 75 percent but he only faced like 8 shots. I feel people who look at stats don't have a grasp of sports because they don't tell the whole story.

09-12-2006, 02:08 PM	#2
Stickman Stickman Posts: 15,119	Stats are extremely overrated. Let's take a goalie in hockey for example. Lets say the goalie is a backup who only plays no more than 15 games and gets thrown in there when the team is sucking infront of him. Goalie gets no warm up when he gets put in and the team is playing like shit, of course he's going to give up a couple goals. His save percentage for the game could be like 75 percent but he only faced like 8 shots. I feel people who look at stats don't have a grasp of sports because they don't tell the whole story.