As we head into the NFL Draft later this week, it's easy to get lost in a lot of numbers and stats to evaluate players.
And in the offseason, stats are one of the few things we really have to go on as we look ahead to the upcoming season.
Stats are good. Stats are helpful. I like stats. In fact, I love them as benchmarks, as trend identifiers and as a way to make us blatantly aware of what works - and what doesn't.
But stats completely unreliable as the sole measurement in predicting great players as well as championships because they fail to account for beating the odds.