[Lil' Lavery]

Just like professional sports, point prevention is a very difficult thing to quantitize. Just ask any stats whiz who enjoys baseball or hockey. There's some "glamor" stats that are relativley easy to track, such as blocked shots, but those don't always correlate to actual defensive performance.

In matches not featuring full court shooters, blocked shots are very rare this year. There are a handful of machines that will still attempt to block shots around the pyramid, but usually no more than one or two teams per regional will have any luck with it (and even then, it will only work against certain opponents shooting from certain locations). A majority of defense this year is played on robots in transition between the loading areas and their scoring locations. Thus it is very difficult to create a truly objective and standardized measure of their performance, as countless variables impact it.