Kevin Love's rebounding? 30-20's etc...
Double Double streak
Agreed!!
I think the way the media decided to completely ignore pre-merger basketball to enhance the streak's importance historically is notable.
Similar to how the current NFL just ignores all championships before they rebranded it as the "superbowl".
I do think, however, that it is important to contextualize stats in historical periods. The specific dates of each era may be artificially concrete, but it is useful to acknowledge differences between eras.
Its useful when comparing players to each other, but when you're talking about it like its a record I think that falls apart.
Its like people talking about Kobe's 81 point game without mentioning Wilt's 100 point game at all. Except this conversation has gone on for a month.
Fair point. I think it would be interesting to see records expressed as standard differentiation/degree of outliers. In other words, a double-double streak of 100 games is less impressive if, in that same time span, there were other players with streaks of 90, 85, 88, etc. as compared to 30 years later, if there were a double double streak of 70 games (clearly not the record), but the other streaks in that time were 20, 25, 30, 20, etc.
I mean, the point of era contextualization is that sure, Wilt scored 100 points, but it was an era that allowed him to average 50+ ppg one year, right? So Kobe's 81 would not be as impressive if it were a league where a player was averaging 40 ppg. But no one has come close to that in a long time, so the 81 is quite an outlier.
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