Yeah, exactly what I was thinkingMan...I'm so disillusioned ....
yeah kind of a non story, its been happening for days... for that matter, every botched call is a statiscal plus for one player and a minus for another- getting bailed out comes up backwards in the box score.
but now its on youtube and plain to see. thats why its always better to watch the games than go on stats, hollinger be damned!
who's CP3?
Oh great, so all those assists he lodged against my fantasy team were bull too. So your telling me, I should have won my league this year. I lost assists by 3 lousy assists.
I wonder how many Roman Sessions was getting in that last week, or if the Bucks stats were done the same way.
I don't get it?Man...I'm so disillusioned ....
At its peak, Stockton averaged like 2 APG more at home than on the road, which is ridiculous.
One game Stockton had 3 more assists than the Jazz had FGM. The Utah scorekeeper said it was because he was practicing polygamassists.
This is a pretty interesting subject. I don't think this is really exclusive to Chris Paul, but I have a question, though, for the conspiracy theorist types: How exactly does this botch positively affect the Hornets franchise?
It's not going to increase the attendance or TV ratings of the team in question, if the stats are faked and don't translate properly to the real desired outcome of more game wins. So I don't think money is a real motivation. And inflating assist stats really wouldn't do anything other than make other teams overestimate our team, which is not a desirable effect at all. And having better stats than reality is going to be confusing at the end of the season when you're trying to figure out who should be cut or not. I guess they could inflate his stats to make him more valuable if they planned on trading him, but I don't see the Hornets franchise letting go of CP3 anytime soon.
So for those who seem to think the Hornets franchise is behind this, what's the reason for doing it?
Does it have much of a primary effect on the game? Probably not. But if you believe the refs operate on a star system, you could argue padding the stats pushes CP3 into the higher stratosphere of NBA stars. If Bennett Salvatore believes he's averaging 13 assists a game instead of the 10 he should be getting, maybe subconsciously he's less likely to call a travel or a pushoff with the off arm.
Otherwise, it is kind of annoying to keep hearing about how Stockton has 5000 more assists than Magic, but know if you discounted the bogus ones, that difference would be much smaller.
the playoff stat keepers are neutral. so its not an "inside job"
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