Why do playoff stats not count for career stats in major sports?

Playoff opportunities are primarily team stats and it skews individual comparisons too much

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I don’t understand why you can use postseason games as a negative when it comes to wear and tear on a player

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You don’t understand why it’s more physically grueling on a human body to play 20-21 FB games instead of 16-17 or 100+ basketball games instead of 82? Really?

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but not use the positives for career performance.

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Not sure if you are from an alternate time line but in mine people doing fact use playoff performance to judge players. Eli Manning is would never be remotely considered for the HOF if no one considered playoff performance and there are many other examples hall of fames are full of good not great players that just happened be on really good teams that won a lot, so i really don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

Statistics from playoff games should not be added to regular season stats because as was just said it’s a product of team how far players gets

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Eli Manning is would never be remotely considered for the HOF if no one considered playoff performance

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Ehh...he had 57,000 yards and 370 TDs. That's 11th on the list between Marino and Elway and everyone with better stats is or will be in the HOF. I admit he's a bit borderline by modern standards and without the two rings and last name he's fighting to get in, but he would definitely be "considered" and probably be considered a 50/50 prospect.

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I know this is true for NFL and MLB, I assume NBA as well. I understand not counting them for the season, as teams play different amounts of games when the playoffs are included. As for career, it makes no sense to me. These aren’t all star exhibitions. Hell, these games are usually going to be more competitive.

I don’t understand why you can use postseason games as a negative when it comes to wear and tear on a player, but not use the positives for career performance.

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Shouldn't count together.

Playoffs are a tournament to determine the best team

Baseball came first of the Big 4, the World Series was started to determine the best teams from two leagues.

bc you want to use stats to compare apples to apples i.e. how good is a baseball player over 162 games. so an average player on a good team year after year can have quantitative stats that could equal a really good player on a bad team that never makes playoffs

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Playoff opportunities are primarily team stats and it skews individual comparisons too much

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Does it though? Would any records change? Would any of our current "all-time" perceptions change with a few more numbers mixed in? I just feel like the great players still look great and the bad players still look bad. It doesn't move the needle enough to matter that much career wise and "you play the game to win" so the let the stats reflect that. Just my $.02.

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You don’t understand why it’s more physically grueling on a human body to play 20-21 FB games instead of 16-17 or 100+ basketball games instead of 82? Really?

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You literally quoted part of my statement to argue this. My stance is, if you throw for 12 TDS in the playoffs, those should be added to your career total in terms of the record books

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so i really don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

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The title pretty much says it all

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Statistics from playoff games should not be added to regular season stats because as was just said it’s a product of team how far players gets

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I don’t think it should count for a single season total per se, just career stats. You already said it’s more grueling to play in 20-21 games versus 17. Those are competitive games.

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he’s what they call a compiler… more a baseball term but it applies here. He wasn’t really in the top tier of QBs in any given year.

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100% this. He was never close to all pro let alone mvp. Never lead the league is a positive stat. In 16 years made the playoffs 6 times 4 of those were 0-1.