How scoring streaks are counted

A run counts consecutive completed Premier League club fixtures in which a player scores at least one credited goal. Penalties count; own goals do not.

When an in-progress match is present in the latest exports, dashboard and club goal totals and streaks include it provisionally. Live goals can extend or provisionally end a run before full time, and overturned goals or final results can change those statistics on the next refresh. Live fixtures are labelled LIVE (provisional) and are not counted as completed fixtures. Recently ended streaks and weekly preview evidence use completed matches only. Refreshes are twice daily, not continuous live updates.

A club fixture without a credited goal for that player ends the run, even if the player did not appear. The exports do not provide appearance or lineup information. In-season runs reset between seasons and on club changes.

Active in-season streaks require at least two consecutive completed club fixtures and include the club's latest completed fixture. Active describes the club's results, not current squad membership. Cross-season runs may continue across season boundaries for the same club; a club change or completed fixture without a credited goal ends them.

Jamie Vardy's benchmark is 11 games in 2015/16. Eleven matches equals that mark; twelve beats it. Future fixtures are opportunities, not predicted goals: later milestones depend on scoring in every intervening club fixture.

How are club scorers ranked?

The club directory covers every club with a completed or scheduled fixture in the current season. Leaderboards count every credited goal, including multiple goals in one match, for the club represented in that fixture. Goals by departed players remain; prior-season goals are excluded. Tied totals share a rank and skip subsequent places (1, 1, 3), with alphabetical ties.

What do season bests and recently ended runs show?

This season's bests show each player's longest ended run of at least two matches, excluding ongoing runs. Repeated tied bests retain every run's dates. Recently Ended Streaks lists qualifying runs that ended in completed matches with UTC kickoff during the 168 hours ending at the data's generatedAt timestamp, including both endpoints. This window changes when data is regenerated, not as the page ages.

What does a player's fixture view include?

Selecting a player or streak opens all available Premier League club fixtures for each represented club-season, not just appearances or the selected run. Credited-goal fixtures are green, completed fixtures without a credited goal grey, and scheduled fixtures white, with text labels alongside the colours. Grey does not establish whether the player appeared; scheduled matches have no player goal count. Last goal and next scheduled game appear with the season totals. Tied and multi-club runs retain separate club-season lists.

The archive begins in January 2020, so 2019/20 is partial and excluded from historical season-leader comparisons. COVID-delayed fixtures through 26 July 2020 belong to 2019/20; other season boundaries follow July through June. The synthetic Jamie Vardy 2015/16 benchmark shows his eleven-game run rather than a full archived season.

How fresh are the statistics and previews?

The interactive dashboard and club pages load published statistics using JavaScript. The data's generatedAt timestamp records calculation time, not when upstream match data was fetched. Fixture changes require refreshed exports and regenerated statistics. Markdown pages and collected LLM content explain the site; they do not embed live statistics.

Blog cover Thursday 09:00 through Monday end in Europe/London. Players need an active run of at least two club fixtures and a fixture in that window. No previews are scheduled in June or July.

Articles are AI-assisted and reviewed by a human editor. Drafts are scheduled for Thursday 09:00 Pacific/Auckland; the fixture coverage window remains in Europe/London. Drafting requires verified fetches no more than twelve hours old for the current Auckland month and any later preview months. Earlier current-season months retain their original fetch timestamps and are checked for integrity, not claimed to be freshly fetched. Historical corrections require a replacement source snapshot.

The editor's merge authorizes publication of the captured Thursday evidence, even if reviewed later. Published previews show the evidence as-of time separately from their publication time; they are not live results updates. The source-data cutoff measures the oldest required live-month fetch, not when the article or statistics were generated. Unresolved past fixtures, modified evidence, or mismatched draft previews block publication.