Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
Statistics for statistics' sake. I blame gamblers and fantasy football league players. And statisticians, of course.

All so they don't have to perform the tedious, tiresome task of actually watching the Beautiful Game. Not that that would help them, of course.
I once got laughed out of the pub by claiming that you could never understand Dennis Bergkamp by reading his numbers, and compared it to giving a great work of art a mark out of ten.

Great art cannot be measured on a spreadsheet. Nobody expresses the Mona Lisa in terms of expected viewings....