A recent article in 538 proposed the name “Pareto Game” for the situation where a player puts up a stat line that no one in NBA history has exceeded in each category. The name comes from the great Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who developed the concept of “Pareto optimality.” A distribution of goods is Pareto optimal if it is impossible to give one person more without giving someone else less. In a two-player, zero-sum game, all distributions are Pareto optimal, helping one person always hurts the other. But most economic situations are not zero-sum.
A nice way to see the difference between “optimal” and “Pareto optimal” is to imagine two hermits on desert islands.