New way to keep stats

Stats of any type of sport used to be kept the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper. And for many fans and parents this manner of keeping stats keeps them involved with the game and makes them pay attention in a little more detail-oriented way. Although this method is still around technology advancements have made keeping up with stats a lot simpler and more convenient. The advancements of such technologies such as excel sheets, web based stat tracking companies, GameChanger, as well as other technologies. Just think about watching ESPN or some other major sports network and they pull out some crazy wild stat out of the air, “this is the first time since 1988 a player has hit three triples off of nothing but 0-2 pitches”, they aren’t pulling those stats out of thousands and thousands of pages of stats in the booth, they have some form of stat tracking technology they are referencing. Newspapers still have sporting stats in their papers for those who like reading the stories as well, but stats are mainly found and looked up online now. Scoreboards and their advancements with on screen data (such as pictures, or short videos) also allow fans to keep up with season stats as well as that games stats on the screen. Without this type of technology every fan would have to keep up with how #8 Braden Shewmake’s every at bat to know how he has done throughout the day in the 9^th inning. This type of stat tracking technology is used in every sport, not just baseball. In football it would be very difficult to keep up with the amount of incomplete passes Tom Brady had in the 2018 season if an individual was keeping up with those stats in a notebook, or what percent free-throw shooter Michael Jordan was over his career. These types of stats without technological advancements would be very difficult to keep up with flipping through pages and pages of data.