ABSTRACT
The term statistics has the unfortunate fate of having two definitions that can cause a bit of confusion. First of all, statistics can be defined as a collection of numerical data. Most sports data fits into this definition and you often hear people refer to sports “stats” or to a player’s “stats.” This is how we think of sports data, and it is a proper view given this definition. Jay Bennett said, “Sports are statistics” and Leonard Kopett, a Hall of Fame sportswriter once said, “Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball” (see [4]). We will call such data sports statistics.
