“Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later

(Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record for three-point field goals, 402, completely crushing the old record of 286. Curry's record still stands. The New York Times was rather breathless about this: The record is an outlier that defies most comparisons, but here is one: It is the equivalent of hitting 103 home runs in a Major League Baseball season. And it is an astonishing feat. But I wrote an article called Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough? in which I compared Curry's feat with similar feats of the past, including the one implied by the Times, Babe Ruth's 1920 single-season home run record, and concluded: To make the same comparison as the authors of the Times article, [Ruth's feat] is the equivalent of hitting 136 home runs in a Major League Baseball season. I also compared Curry's record with Joe Dimaggio's 1941 hitting streak, Bob Beamon's world record long jump at the 1968 Olympic Games, and Takeru…