Hoop Blah Snowball, apologies if this has already been asked, but, as your recording assist stats are you recording the a similar stat for the creative player if the chance is missed?
The 'assisters' contribution is exactly the same of course, their worth shouldn't really be quantified but the effectiveness of the person they pass to should it?
It would be nice, Hoop, but very difficult for me to do.
I'd be happy if someone else wanted to feed me such stats though.
very difficult for me to do.
(a) It may often be subjective.
eg was it a brilliant through ball and the striker slow to react
or was the through ball hit a tad too hard? Think Matejovsky
(b) I don't get to all away games so might well miss such passes
It would be fun to get hold of all stats. Number of passes, successful passes, distance run, tackles made etc etc
but I can't get 'em. My assists column is not really meant as a measure of creativity, but simply as a measure of
"genuinely helping to make a goal".
So if Hunt shoots, keeper saves, Manset taps in, I would award an assist to Hunt
but if the ball hits Hunt's backside, he knows nothing about it, and it falls to HRK, I wouldn't award the assist.
I'd also award an assist for winning a penalty, regardless of how valid it is, or whether the pen is scored.