I understand statistics is useful to speculate in certain areas (like retailing, consumer consumption, product structuring etc). In sports. I watch sports in America (NFL and NBA mostly), who have well organized teams and offcourse mundane statistics. However, I seriously doubt if players are selected based on the individual performances statistics. They certainly are selected with perf, but I guess stats dont play that much role. This is sports guys, how a player plays sometimes is so dependent on otehr players. Especially in cricket, with so many formats, and batting and bowling positions, its all the more nonsense to keep on going with these statistics.
I feel that the ppl who are doing it are certainly brainy guys, but are trying to do some kind of job justification or kind of want to confuse the public or the management teams. A player is good or bad in a situation thats it. How consistent he is is what matters. All you have to see is how he scored or bowled and if there were any notable circumstances. I guess any coach could do that. Then why all these statistics...I guess its their hobby and teams have enough money to blow on all these stuff..
Anyway, I might be wrong in one aspect, these probably would be needed for marketing guys for pricing players for advertisements..
