The question is interesting and I like mytreds point, if you want to factor in playoff stats then go ahead. It's not like anyone is going to say, "oh no, you can't possibly factor in their postseason stats when deciding on whether they're Hall-worthy".
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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
Perfect example came after I started this thread last night. Kobe White had a career high 40 points in a do or die game. But it doesn't count in his career totals. Nor in his playoff totals. It's treated like an exhibition game. But it wasn't even close to being an exhibition game.
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That's a completely separate issue though that the NBA is just being stupid about. Of course they should be counted as playoff stats or regular season stats. 163-game stats counted as regular season stats in baseball. I think they should be counted as postseason stats myself, but whatever, pick one.
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Originally Posted by pilight
It would make comparisons across time impossible. Modern players have much greater opportunity to make the playoffs and play many more games once they do. Frankie Crosetti, with his seven rings, played in slightly more than half as many playoff games as Barry Bonds, famous for his postseason disappointments. Ronald Acuna, who is 26 years old and has never played in a World Series, has more playoff games than Stan Musial, who played in four World Series and won three.
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I would have agreed with this once upon a time, but no longer. We can't really completely fairly compare across eras as it is. You can't break something that is already broken.
Different eras had a different # of games, different teams had or didn't have something to play for late in a season, some players were injured or "injured", etc. If Cobra wants to say the true home run record holder had X home runs, including those in postseason play, I'm cool with that.
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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
I could make an argument they should be used in season totals as well. The batting champ isn't the one w/the most hits. It's the one w/the highest percentage. The NBA scoring champ isn't the one w/the most points, but the one w/the highest average per game. We already acknowledge that averages & per game are significant factors to understand the totals. We should just do the same in the official record books. Rank them by totals & then rank them by average. W/qualifiers for the "title" having to play a certain percentage of their team's games.
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I like the notion that we should or could just compare players on rate stats, but I do think we run into a problem when looking at a rate stat that takes from both regular and post season stats. That is, one would think that it'd be tougher to get good stats in a PS game and therefore the player who played in more PS games might not look as good in comparison to others as maybe they should.