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You dug deep and find gold! In retrospect this is so obvious when you laid this out.

Actually this reminds me of Finnish soccer league stat keeping that was and still one of the worst stat keeping ever. There where fantasy games in the early 2000s that I liked to play and noticed the stat keeping was inconsistent. My main takeaway from that era was that stat keepers usually recognizes the home team players much easier and they did not "cook" the books, but left out away team player stats like shots on goal and assist usually empty. This was a symptom of scorekeeper not recognize the player who made the shot or assist. It did not even matter how obvious the shot or assist was, just pure laziness and not caring about the stats.

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This is the best Finnish soccer reference on this site yet. in all seriousness, I think that's a really sharp observation. the road bias!?

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Watched a lot of soccer then and it was pretty easy to notice what kind of actions where unnoticed by the scorekeeper. If the shot was not easy to see who took it live or who assisted it then it usually was not marked at all. People sometimes did not get assist even if the goal was scored by one touch by the attacker. Goals are basically only official stats that will get checked later as it is required by UEFA. I once asked about the stats from the leagues CEO, which strangely answered to me about the issue.

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Watched this morning and it was a fantastic. As a 42 year old who grew up in Portland with only one professional team the Blazers and NBA of the late 80s/90 were my passion so this was a very interesting lense to see my memories through.

Also, as many a YT commentor stated it made us yearn for Basketball Illuminati and a future return one day.

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