Lots of it is used for “advanced stats” that try to assign credit for team success in more advanced (and controversial) ways. (It doesn’t happen often.) Basketball has become incredibly sophisticated in tracking nearly everything that happens, to the point where there is more information than people can really use, but not all of it is goes into “official” statistics. This is done in the first case by people at the stadium, but sometimes these can be overturned on review. American sports there are official scorers who note and assign credit or blame – in basketball, assists, points, rebounds, steals, turn-overs, etc.
I assume you mean the “official scorer” at each stadium? In most major N.
Does any other sport have anything similar? Also that baseball has official statisticians whose job it is to record officially who gets the credit (or, I suppose, the blame) for events during the game.
