I have long been vexed and perplexed by the lack of clarity about the definitions of key game actinos used in compiling football statistics in the modern game. FPL's own website offers no help on this at all.
Then, a little while ago, I finally turned up this page on the Stats Perform website (the parent company of Opta, the dominant player in the football stats industry now, responsible for most of the figures FPL uses to determine its points allocations). And guess what - that's really of very little help either. The supposed 'definitions' are very short, often very vague - and offer no illustrative examples of how they're applied to actual game situations.
One of the biggest problems with football statistics (one of many...) is that we don't really know exactly what they're counting most of the time. And, even worse, it appears that the stats compilers themselves don't have a very clear idea about it. This is why you should approach all statistics with extreme caution.
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