History of stats in sports.

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Statistics or stats can be used for various activities in the fields of science and mathematics. The word statistics comes from the Italian word statista, the German word statisik, and ultimately from the New Latin statisticum collegium (“council of state”). Early in the 19th century, the meaning of statistics was to include a collection of data. The history of sports statistics began with baseball, one of the earliest sports of all-time. How statistics works in sports is that an observer, who attends a game, records every play by taking notes on either a box score or a scoring report. When a game is over, the box score or scoring report is complete, and is then sent to all sports news around the world, so the statistics can be posted. Methods for data in sports are not just statistical, but they also mathematical, since some statistics take a lot of arithmetic. For example, a player’s slugging average in baseball uses addition, multiplication and division. Other sports statistics take a little less arithmetic, for instance, golf.