First let me stipulate that my memory is not all that it used to be, I think that discussion was many years ago and would be somewhere in an old thread here. I'll try to look it up when I get back to the laptop after finishing the day's errands.

Bear in mind, as part of the Research Team I just find and provide the raw data for them, I'm not privy to the sausagemaking of how they turn those numbers into game stats and my personal suspicion is that it's less science and more "That Looks About Right" flinging spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks. This has been a nightmare for the Stats Committee trying to slot in extensions for rates we don't have...