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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3845202, member: 289"] My problem is that baseball plays the most games: twice as many as basketball or hockey and ten times as much as football yet it's the only only sport that abscesses over whether a statistic is 'earned'. Surely the anomalies in this sport would be more overwhelmed by the opportunities than in any other. When they give the scores they don't just give the runs that were earned: they give all the runs that were scored. You want to know how many runs a pitcher tends to give up ? Should count al the runs that will show up on the scoreboard. A goalie will give up more goals when his team's defense is poor than if it is good. They all count against his team and they all count against him. [/QUOTE]