Question about Alves/Assists

[dww]

The Spanish system of awarding one for providing the "pass that leads to a chance" is obviously less well defined and more subjective than the English "if you were the last attacking player to play a deliberate pass which led to a goal" way of defining an assist but I think over a season you are right that the Spanish statistic is probably a better guide. Maybe both are useful and need to have different names. I would be interested to see what numbers Paco uses to analyse games.

[El Jefecito]

They have a different idea of what constitues an assist in Spain. Over here players get awarded very few assists, wrongly so IMO. SG for instance had 5 in the league last season.

I'll get shot for this. I like the 'Key Pass' statistic from Football manager. I think that is a far more relevant statistic that whoever touched the ball last.

[dww]

I think you are right. Ultimately as with all statistics you need to use the correct measure or combination of measures before u can make any judgement.