counttds

Counttds is a term used in informal contexts in both sports analytics and software development. It does not refer to a single standardized concept in major reference works, but is often encountered as either a function name, a variable, or a shorthand label for counting occurrences of "TD" (touchdowns) or similar events within a dataset or stream of events.

In sports statistics, counttds typically denotes the tally of touchdowns scored by a player, team, or roster across a specified window—such as a game, a season, or a career. Analysts may distinguish between different TD types (rushing, receiving, return) or treat all TDs as a single count depending on the analysis goals. In play-by-play logs, a counttds operation usually involves scanning events for entries marked as TD and summing them.

In computing and data processing, counttds can be a simple utility function or method that counts occurrences of a target label. For example, given a stream or list of event records, a counttds function might return the number of records where event.label equals "TD". The name is common in codebases that adopt camelCase or snake_case naming conventions, sometimes appearing as countTDs, CountTDs, or count_tds.

Other considerations include whether to include postseason or exhibition games, whether to count only touchdowns or also two-point conversions, and how to aggregate counts across different dimensions. See also touchdowns, sports statistics, data counting, and text parsing.