Stats Suggestion: Change goals/game to goals/10min

[naethy]

Small suggestion here. On ball ladder, I play whale about half the time and light planes about the other half -- very often in the same game. This means my goals/game for the light planes are heavily decreased, because I might only play the plane half the time. For example, my goals/game for loopy is 0.7, but goals/10min is 2.1. Similarly, my miranda stats are 0.7 and 2.5 respectively.

I should note that I only *play* loopy of miranda if my team needs me to score goals; if I played them more often I'm sure my goal frequency would drop -- for instance, I only play miranda when I'm the best miranda on the team, which is almost never. However, I do think that goals/10min is more a more useful stat than goals/game for players who change planes frequently.

[Carlos98]

I've previously given this area some thought, and my conclusion is it is a pointless exercise.

Unfortunately how do you handle long games vs short games?
The goals per 10min of a player who always plays longer games will be far lower than a person who always plays short games.

Any game of ball has a maximum of 6 goals scored for one individual.
If a game takes one hour they are at 1 goal per 10min.
If you look at someone that scored 1 goal in a 5 minute game they are at 2 goals per 10min.

Which is better? Hell if I know.
Maybe we could divide the total goals scored by the average length of all ball games? But then each player differs in game lengths.
Divide by individual average game length? But games where an individual plays explo are probably different in length than when they play loopy.
There could be a lot of debate on how to craft the perfect statistic for goals scored,
but in the end that debate and work to calculate aren't really worth it.