In sports, goals are the physical objects that serve as the sought after destinations needed for achieving points in a game or event. Goals are used to calculate game scores by separating a winning and losing team and awarding players and athletes points in individual sports or team sports. The results of goal statistics can be used by an athlete to gauge their own athletic performance and calculate the percentage of success versus attempts to get a ball into a goal in ball sports. Sharing terminology with a person's aims and ambitions, goals in sports can also be symbolic or ephemeral as sports goals can be determined in every competitive game, including those of video games and virtual reality.