Even without cheating, I already render records useless unless they have to do with wins and losses. I agree with you that there needs to be individuality in sports. You can be a fan of a player because of his great skill and talent or his personality not because of his 'numbers'. Cubs fans know that Sosa hits the most useless home runs in the world. He may get 60 in a season but 40 of them are when the games are 10-0. Gretzky's 92 goals isn't as impressive as you think. They were winning games 8-2 and the team was amazing. Hull and Lemieux scored 86 on lesser teams. And Selanne scoring 76 as a rookie for a crap Winnipeg team was just sick.
The US has gone stats crazy. Last year, I was watching the Giants/Dodgers/Astros pennant/wildcard races and they kept showing Ichiro trying break a record for a dead last-place team. Ridiculous.
Stats are for fantasy geeks only
