A guard drops 22 points on a Tuesday night in November. So does another guard three states over, in a different league, under a different set of rules. Fans treat those two lines as interchangeable, plug them into the same mental spreadsheet, and move on. They shouldn't. The two games those numbers came from aren't built the same way, and pretending otherwise flattens a lot of context that actually matters. That context becomes even more important when box-score numbers are used to judge what...
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