Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are three kinds of lies and all that. The things is, stats don’t lie, people who use stats do. Stats are merely a record of what happened, it’s not until we try to interpret that data does it turns into lies.
And a game like this one is a classic garbage-in, garbage-out scenario. Sure, the box score is a mere record of what happened, but everything in there has to be viewed through the prism of the weather report. We can pour through the numbers, but the one that matters is most is the one that represents the grain of salt:
30.