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Baseball is so much more of an individual sport, or should I say a sport defined by individual matchups so stats can carry far more value.In the NFL, numbers never tell the whole story. It is hard to compare Hines Ward's numbers to that of a Marvin Harrison because they play in different offensive system, but I am sure you knew this already.
That's pretty much along the lines that I was thinking. Your greatness in football is defined more by the intangibles, how you force people to account for you and open up things for other people. This is mostly with linebackers, defensive backs and receivers to a lesser extent. There are ways of neutralizing those positions. Those positions, especially, are defined by how you affect the game because the stats for those positions could also be flukey. To record a pick or a tackle, you could simply find yourself in the right spot at the right time. A quarterback could make an ill-advised throw or simply miss his target. That doesn't necessarily mean that you were in good position, it's a right place/ right time situation. I think that sacks are the only defensive stat that isn't like that because you are forced to create them yourselves. I bring this up because I am a huge Lawrence Taylor fan and have been arguing about whether he or Ray Lewis is better. Lewis has about 200 more tackles and 11 more picks, but I don't think those stats show as much dominance as LT's 110 more sacks.
