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Streaks and Stats Now Read Full-Time Only

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Cup football has a habit of bending the numbers. A match can finish level after ninety minutes and still end with a winner — decided in extra time, or on penalties. That's great drama, but it quietly distorted a couple of things on Smart Soccer Stats. Today's update fixes it: streaks and result-based stats now read the full-time (90') result only.

The problem

Say a team wins six games in a row on paper. Look closer and one of those "wins" was a 1-1 draw in regulation that only tipped their way after extra time. Should that count as part of a winning streak? I don't think so — and until now the site did, because it was reading the final score, extra time and all.

The same logic leaked into the Game Statistics Explorer: a result filtered as a "home win" or an "away clean sheet" could actually be an extra-time outcome, not something decided in the ninety minutes everyone watches.

What changed

Everything that classifies a result now uses the full-time score after regulation, ignoring extra time and penalties:

  • Streak Explorer — winning, losing, drawing, unbeaten and every other streak type is now built from the 90-minute result. A game level at full time breaks a winning streak, even if it was won later in extra time.
  • Result types — home win / draw / away win filters use full time only.
  • Clean sheets & comebacks — a clean sheet means nothing conceded in regulation; a comeback means trailing at half-time and leading at full time.
  • Goal totals — the total-goals filters and ranges count regulation goals, so an extra-time strike doesn't inflate the count.

Ordinary league games are completely unaffected — their full-time score already is the final score. The change only ever matters for the knockout games that went the distance.

What stayed the same

Shots, corners, fouls and cards are still whole-match totals. Those come in as single per-game figures with no minute-by-minute breakdown, so there's no clean way to strip out an extra-time contribution — and I'd rather leave a number honest than split it on a guess. The individual game cards still show the real final score, extra time and penalties included; only the way results are classified has changed.

To keep things clear, both the Streak Explorer and the Game Statistics Explorer now carry a small note reminding you that these figures are full-time only.

Go have a look

If you've been tracking a team's run, it's worth a fresh look — a few streaks will read a little differently now, and more accurately. As always, if there's something you'd like measured differently, tell me. Your suggestions shape what I build next.