Mitaman Two points, Joe Jordan has a chance to shoot but squares it to Ray Hankin who taps in. ASSIST for Joe. Chalk him one up on his record forever. A week later a similar situation he takes the shot and misses, Ray Hankin thinks you stupid fuck I had a tap in if you passed. Does assists count that as -1 for Joe? No! Should it count as -1 to make the stat more meaningful?
Second point. Some Leeds player passed to Luke Ayling at Old Trafford and gifted him a 2% chance of scoring. That bog standard simple pass is an ASSIST, shouldn't it really be at most 0.02 of an ASSIST.
I cannot even recall who passed to Ayling as it is of no real consequence and gets them no brownie points.
Oh bollocks point 3 if Hankin puts the first scenario over the bar what ASSIST credit does Joe get even though Rays a dumbfuck?
It's a shit stat at the general level it is currently applied.
