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Here are two stories... with details from professional stat keepers.
It details how the stats are often very subjective and frequently exaggerated or the players are "helped out" by the stat keepers.
In fact a whole lot of time, the stats are simply "cooked" to look the way the stat keeper wants them to.
But isn't this just the same as the unethical referee who makes calls because he's got money riding on the game?
The whole thing makes me pretty sure that the average fan keeping stats in the stands is as likely to get them right as the guys who call themselves "pros".
Here's just one quote--
"..the seemingly cold and objective NBA box score was, on many nights, a
self-serving fiction, subject to so much artful embroidery and deliberate
manipulation that one might reasonably conclude that the boys from Enron
were sitting courtside, counting dimes."
The guy also details how even some management people controlled the stats, giving one example of fabricating enough stats to give Hakeem Olajuwon a triple double, but then blaming it on someone in the management who told him to do it.
It details how the stats are often very subjective and frequently exaggerated or the players are "helped out" by the stat keepers.
In fact a whole lot of time, the stats are simply "cooked" to look the way the stat keeper wants them to.
But isn't this just the same as the unethical referee who makes calls because he's got money riding on the game?
The whole thing makes me pretty sure that the average fan keeping stats in the stands is as likely to get them right as the guys who call themselves "pros".
Here's just one quote--
"..the seemingly cold and objective NBA box score was, on many nights, a
self-serving fiction, subject to so much artful embroidery and deliberate
manipulation that one might reasonably conclude that the boys from Enron
were sitting courtside, counting dimes."
The guy also details how even some management people controlled the stats, giving one example of fabricating enough stats to give Hakeem Olajuwon a triple double, but then blaming it on someone in the management who told him to do it.
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