I don’t overestimate what we do here. Baseball-Reference isn’t going to reach out to Al and me one day for permission to snap up the “Heroes and Goats” statistic and turn it into one that is tracked for teams. What we do here is a novelty and meant to be fun. It gives us a platform to talk about the good and the bad from the game before, with as much emphasis on the positive as we can muster.
But, I do get mad when people are totally dismissive of an objective statistic. The easiest example in modern baseball is the pitcher win.