There are reasons why you have to watch certain Detroit Tigers and there are reasons why there are players that bore you to tears. Some of those reasons can be easily measured with statistics, but many of those reasons are due to the intangibles that are often hard to define and measure.
According to the book Intangiball by Lonnie Wheeler (published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster), Branch Rickey first described an intangible when he said: “Statistics, of course, cannot tell the whole story. They fall short of bridging the gap between human expectancy and fulfillment.