I’m that analyst who saw it all: a Chinese player, Deng Yuting, breaking records in NCAA D1 with 28.2 MPG and 38% shooting. Born to a Catholic Midwestern family, trained by my ESL teacher mom, I didn’t just crunch numbers—I tracked her rise through the data. This isn’t fiction. It’s the quiet revolution of elite talent meeting cold analytics. Here’s why stats don’t lie—but people still refuse to see it.