But it's tough to interpret comments like those below as anything other than intentionally insulting.

Your understanding of statistics is . . . incomplete. At best.

Just stop. You clearly don’t know what you are doing.

And, of course going through and removing "garbage time" stats with a consistent and balanced filter will provide solid data. No one argued otherwise. But, in the absence of the time or tools necessary to do so, and for the purposes of a simple CB thread, the overall statistical averages are perfectly fine and relevant. You know that as well as I do, and there's no good reason I should've been attacked for it.