MLQ League Statistics Update
MLQ has been keeping individual player statistics since its inception in 2015 via varying methods.
In early seasons, volunteer and film limitations resulted in stats that would sometimes come in weeks, if not months after a series. As a result, their storage and dissemination often took a backseat to their collection, leading to incomplete and missing statistics for an array of seasons. These issues, while improving, have persisted throughout the majority of MLQ’s history, up until this season, where increased investment has meant that MLQ has been able to provide stats on every game player, usually within 48 hours of a series being played.
As a result, we can guarantee that our 2023 statistics are not only our most complete but our most accessible, with more features for analyzing them available than ever before. With future investments in film and streaming, we are confident that our statistics methods will only improve, ushering us into an era of complete league statistics and facilitating the comparison of stats from one year to the next.
With that being said, there currently and may always exist an era from 2015-21 where statistics remain murky and difficult to track down. For example, while the league scoring record was apocryphally held by Andrew Axtell with 58 during his 2017 season with the Indianapolis Intensity, records in other stats are harder to access from those seasons. While that doesn’t diminish the value of any player’s performance in those years, it does mean that any league statistical records moving forward will need to be taken from 2022 forward, when our modern statistics process was initiated. With that being said, given the recent shift to a 12-game regular season and the 9-game regular season record being set at 58 goals, it is highly likely that Miguel Esparza’s 60-goal performance this season sets a league record, no matter how you count the stats. We congratulate Esparza, of the Austin Outlaws, on his record as the league’s all-time, single-season leading scorer, a performance that is only more impressive when you consider that he did this while also leading the league in assists, and while having a turnover-per-game rate lower than all but one of the league’s top-50 scorers.
We look forward to seeing where statistics records in the future take us and providing even more in-depth and complete stats in the years to come. With this data, we hope to begin a comprehensive record that tracks individual and league-wide milestones throughout the years. Keep an eye on our social media as we highlight more statistical achievements of our athletes!
