I did comparisons last year between Britt and a couple of other champo CFs, I remember Grabban was one. Anyway Britts stats were heavily weighted at the bottom 6-8 teams, much moreso than the other strikers. Even bog standard ones like Waghorn who score much more frequently against top half sides.
I put it down to how he scores most of his goals. Most of his goals are when he can get himself free within 8 yards of goal, again moreso than his contemporaries. He can find space without the ball, but can't create space with the ball at his feet. Now his finishing is pretty good from within 8 yards. But it takes a defender who doesn't have the concentration and awareness to allow you that space. Players like Ream and Egan don't switch off as often as Mark Beevers or Marc Roberts.
It's not even about creativity, many of the other strikers were in sides that didn't create enough, and his stats for finishing beyond 8 yards are very poor. I don't think he has the power or accuracy in his strikes, or disguise either. It's always telegraphed where he's going to put it, too long/slow a backlift, which makes it, advantage keeper. there are a lot of technical issues to his game.
I make it 28 of his goals were against bottom 8 relegation sides, 3 against play offs and above, and 14 against midtable sides. He's great in a team that wants to avoid relegation, he's below average against midtable sides, and useless if you want a shot at promotion.
Fair play, at least you've looked into it in detail
When Britt played for Forest (averaging 1 in 2, over two seasons), nearly every goal he scored was against teams above Forest. We've not had a player get 1 in 2 in the league (any league) since I've been alive, I think. I'd love to know who the last player was to do that? I thought Bernie did, but it appears not.
Britt also got 8 more goals away from home for us, than he did at home, that's a stat I found surprising, we all know it's harder to score away.
I think 90% of it comes down to who you play for, and what style they play.
Even if you compare it to lord Bamford, a player most of us liked/ loved, who has proven he can do it in the prem. He managed 17 goals here, in his best season for us, and in his last season before going to Leeds he got 11 in 39 (8 in 26 when playing CF). Of those 11 goals in 5 were against bottom 4 clubs, 4 mid table, 1 below us (7th) and 1 against top. That's no better than Britt's record. In Bamford's first season with Leeds (they didn't go up) he was scoring a goal every 150 mins (a bit better than 1 in 2), but the year they won the league he still only got 16.
I'm not using the above to say Brit is as good a player as Bamford now, but back then I think he would have outscored him in any side if they both played CF, obviously Bamford's come on a bit, and Britt's gone downhill since.
Goals still count against all sides, if you beat the bottom 12 home and away 1-0 then you will pick up enough elsewhere to get automatic promotion.
Riis got 16 goals for a side who only scored 52, that's good going, Piroe got 22 out of Swansea's 58, also great (I think both of them would have outscored Britt and Paddy). I think anything more than 1 in 3 for us in previous seasons (or a goal every 200 minutes which works out similar for substitutions) is a pretty good return, but with now having more creativity a goal every 150 mins should be the target. We need a striker getting around 22-25 this year, it's critical.