On Oct 12 , at 10:39 AM, John M. Steele wrote:
I would argue that (certain changes) would change the nature of the
game and invalidate statistics far more than a 1.6% change.
Several people have raised the specter of the awful calamity that
would befall the world if old statistics were "invalidated".
BIG DEAL!
I can't imagine anything more unimportant than worrying about whether
new records were compatible with old records. Other changes have been
made in football and other sports that have made new statistics not
perfectly consistent with the old ones. They either ignore the
difference, have two sets of statistics (the old and the new) or put
asterisks and footnotes by the new (or maybe the old) statistics.
IT JUST ISN'T IMPORTANT!
Regards,
Bill Hooper
GO METRIC, AMERICA
(with or without the old "statistics")
