It’s easy to put labels on players. But do statistics tell the full story? The answer is no, but they can be helpful.You can prove just about anything with statistics. As Benjamin Disraeli, or was it Mark Twain, once wrote: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Or as Pádraig Harrington put it at Pebble Beach back in February: “You can use stats like a drunk man uses a lamp post, for support rather than illumination…