Current Events > You ever notice how basketball is the only sport that cares about per game stats

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*Only major sport in North America, just to clarify.

Basketball is the only major sport that focuses on per game statistics for every category, versus how other sports (mostly) use accumulated stats to compare players. I know ERA, batting average, and passer ratings exist. No need for the lecture. It's just that in basketball, no one uses total points, rebounds, assists, steals, etc as an idicator of a player's ability. The averages in each game are the stats brought up. Atleast baseball, football, soccer and hockey have HR's, hits, steals, strikeouts, TD's, passing/ rushing yards, and goals.

Basketball purely uses averages. Weird, mane.
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probably because basketball is so high scoring
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I dunno, in football, per game passing/rushing/receiving averages seem to be just as commonly mentioned as season totals
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"That guy has scored 1247 points this year"

99% of fans: "Is that good or...?"
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