The only reason I can think of that stats may be important as for all-league or all-state recognition, though even at that, depending on the level competence of the stats folks for each team they can be ridiculously off from reality. It's normal here where PBR does their all-state selections to see kids my son knew either personally, from summer ball or having grown up playing with/against to have stats that everyone knew were ridiculously inflated. There can't be 15-20 kids in each of the 4 divisions here that hit .500+ lol.....especially when some of them are on teams that went 4-22