Sports fans love stats. They love them, but here’s the thing: what one person finds interesting and obscure and mind-blowing, someone else will shrug off as whatever.
No matter what sport is your favorite, though, there’s no arguing that these 17 stats are completely insane.
17. A long and storied career.
There might never be another that matches it.
16. That’s something.
Luck is everything sometimes.
Taylor Hall winning 5 draft lotteries in his first 9 years in the league.
— Emily Kaplan (@emilymkaplan) July 1, 2020
15. One of these things is not like the other.
The bests are just SO MUCH better.
14. When it’s not fair, but you just shrug.
And kick their a$ses anyway.
13. The Tony Gwynn stats on this thread are blowing my mind.
In the best possible way.
My favorite: If Tony Gwynn had played for a few more seasons and ended his career on an 0-for-1,182 streak … his career batting average would still be .300.
— Stephen Cohen (@scohenSEA) July 1, 2020
12. Poor Jimmy.
You think it’s going to get better, but then…not.
11. This is just hilarious.
Go Tigers?
The Detroit Tigers have drafted more Super Bowl winning quarterbacks than the Detroit Lions
— Purdue 49 Ohio State 20 (@gabuckeyehater) July 1, 2020
10. This doesn’t seem possible.
He’s SO much better than everyone else it’s unreal.
Tiger only holed one shot from off the green the entire 2005 season. It was his chip in on 16 at Augusta.
— Jamie Kennedy (@jamierkennedy) July 1, 2020
9. When you’re hot, you’re hot.
What if OU doesn’t win another in the next 30 years though?
8. Nobody beats him.
The golden era of baseball was the best.
7. Defense wins games.
Or loses them, in this case.
6. It’s an exclusive club.
The closer everyone needs but hardly anyone gets.
More people have walked on the moon than scored a earned run against Mariano Rivera in the playoffs
— john tudor (@jtudor2) July 1, 2020
5. It takes a crazy amount of discipline.
But there were others in the same era, which is MORE insane.
4. The Russian women are bots.
Or they’re on drugs, I guess.
3. This state may live in infamy.
It will be a long time before anyone beats it.
The New York Islanders won 19 straight playoff series from 1980-84. Good luck to anyone matching that.
— Chris Fallica (@chrisfallica) July 1, 2020
2. A picture is worth a thousand words.
That horse deserved the best retirement.
1. I’d like to see him and Tiger go head-to-head.
It’s the only thing that might make golf exciting for me.
Arnold Palmer made hole-in-ones, in competition, on the same hole ON CONSECUTIVE DAYS. No one else in professional golf has ever done that, before or since.
— Bob Valvano (@espnVshow) July 2, 2020
I don’t know what I was expecting, but wow! Sports are amazing!
Which one of these made your jaw drop the hardest? Tell us in the comments!
