Harvey Pollack

Because of his proclivity to statistics, then Philadelphia Bulletin writer George Kiseda pinned the moniker of Super Stat on him in 1966.

[1] Pollack played basketball for Simon Gratz High School and graduated in 1943 from Temple University in Philadelphia.

[2] He took his first job as a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Bulletin after serving as a soldier in the United States Army during World War II.

Pollack was responsible for many stats that are now officially recorded by the NBA, such as blocked shots, and he was the first statistician to separate rebounds into offensive and defensive.

Pollack claimed that Wilt Chamberlain had not only a quadruple-double, but also a game where he recorded at least double digits in all five primary statistical categories.