Comments on: Should playoff stats count towards a player’s numbers?

By: tealish

tealish — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:13:33 +0000

Separated stats make for easier analyzing, but why they can’t be combined when looking from a career standpoint, completely boggles my mind. Everything should be included if you refer to CAREER points, CAREER ppg, CAREER games played because after all, playoff games are played in one’s career, no?

By: karan

karan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:35:21 +0000

i agree with dime here.
postseason stats should be counted as normal… great players play in greater games, and their statistics in these games are what really shape their greatness

By: doc

doc — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:38:26 +0000

I like it how it is.

By: Homeless J

Homeless J — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:23:19 +0000

I agree partially with the NBA separating regular-season stats from postseason stats because it helps accentuate how certain people perform even better and some people choke when the games really count. I also, to an extent, understand separation of regular season and playoff records, because it’s a lot harder to perform well in the playoffs than it is in the regular season.

What I really don’t agree with is not counting the playoff games themselves in their career totals, and the fact that the emphasis is on the regular season records instead of the postseason records.

I never understood how, in football, they don’t just tack on stats from the postseason on their full season record. I mean it’s usually one or two more games (or three if you get to the super bowl), why not give them the credit for it. For instance if a team gets to the superbowl and a guy starts 19 games, he’ll only get historical credit for starting 16. It’s the same as it is in the NBA in this regard but NBA teams play a lot more games. It would skew the numbers more to add the NFL games together to a player’s stats, but it’s usually only one or two more games, why not just give em to the guy.

By: Shannequa

Shannequa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:10:26 +0000

Cuz that’s how the NBA rollz, y’all. Get wid da program.

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GEE...the twalet (toilet) is a wonderful and amazing thing! — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:03:41 +0000

Yea Dave I like it that way too. You dealing with a whole different thing in the playoffs. No more grapefruit games. You got to bring it.

Plus that 82 helps when comparing cats strickly based on the season. If you mix that with the playoffs things get murky.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:48:58 +0000

I like having the stats separate. I like playoff records being different from regular season records.

By: srb

srb — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:42:07 +0000

I guess I’m missing the point of the argument against separating them. The second season has its own stats. There are the stats that matter, and the stats that matter more. We all know the difference between regular season and playoff stats, and which we can put more weight on. I don’t think people are missing the importance of playoff stats so it doesn’t seem like a problem to me to have them separated.

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:57:45 +0000

What bothers me sometimes is that a lot of the playoff records get busted these days, like most career playoff games, career playoff scoring, etc. because all of the damn series are best of 7 now, unlike for many years in the league when the playoff scrubs got sent packing in best of 5s.

The playoffs are a season unto themselves.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:49:32 +0000

…though Hans’ example is the perfect argument against keeping them separated, I would say.