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Always during SportsCenter or NFL Live or ESPNNEWs or w.ever show ESPN has, they always resort to random stats such as:

- X is the 2nd player to hit a 3 Pter in 10 consecutive games since Y did it

-X is the 1st player in 30 years to have a 50/6/6 game since Y did it

-X is the 6th player in history to hit .414 bat avg in a 25 game span, since Y did it in 1987

Etc.

How do the recall these stats? -- Do they have a database? Do they have analysts who research random stuff that happen during a game to bring up during the highlights of the game?

they have a system/people

There are a couple companies that provide stats information. ESPN pays one of them to come up with this stuff. I imagine statistical services really took off when they started putting all this info into electronic databases.

Check out http://www.esb.com.

Your a baseball fan judging by your sig? There are even more crazier of stats given throughout ball games. Like player x is the first player to throw 9 consecutive strikes from the end of a game in the 9th carried over to another games 1st 2 innings in the same ballpark in the month of June coming of an injury that lasted more than 8 weeks..

All they need is a database of cross-referenced stats and then they can type a query like "50pnts in a loss by at least 10pnts" and then you'll get all the games that match. You can start your own database using Microsoft Access.

Anyone remember that ESPN show "Stump the Swami" or something like that? That dude had like every sports stat, ever, memorized.