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Academy Task 5: SSL Record Holders and Their Chasers - fridayhungary - 2026-06-25
SSL Record Holders and Their Chasers
I wanted to take a look at some of the record holders in the SSL and whether or not anyone could catch them. I’m looking specifically at the index page for Major/division 1 page on the portal. I wanted to focus on records held at the highest level as theoretically they are done against the stiffest competition.
Goals Scored
Owen Forty-Four is the SSL majors goal scoring leader. Bagging an impressive 180 in 206 appearances, he is 34 goals ahead of his closest rival. Owen banged them in at a rate of .87 goals a game. With substantially less majors appearances than the next two on the list, he is still well clear of them. The question now becomes who could possibly catch Owen? Of our established stars the best hope appears to be Julian Rubio. Rubio’s scored 115 in 135 appearances giving him a rate of .85 per game. The rate is essentially the same as Owen, so how likely is it?
The first hurdle facing Rubio is that he has already begun his decline phase. Only once so far, but he is not getting any younger sadly. Father time is undefeated and Rubio will have to go a few rounds against him to catch up to Owen. Given the pace is the same roughly, we can assume Rubio would need 70 more games give or take. Julio would need to play at an elite level for four more seasons after this one to match the appearances of Owen and remain a goal scoring threat that whole time.
The next problem is just the sheer pace of goal scoring required. Continuing to average nearly a goal a game for the rest of your career is no mean feat. It requires not only skill but quite a lot of luck as well. Quality teammates, your own talent, and the dreaded luck of the sim.
Julian Rubio is already one of the most impressive goal scorers and players the SSL has seen. Fifth all time in Majors goals and plenty of soccer left to be played in his career. Will he pass Owen? I think it is a very tall task, but I will be watching the whole way in the hopes of seeing more history being made.
Goalies AKA Scott Sterling
I’m going to be honest. I wanted to take a look at multiple records, see if any active players had an opportunity to break them. That will be a fun deep dive I thought. What a neat idea. So I looked at goal scorers and the race of Julio Rubio chasing Owen Forty-Four. I then turned my attention to Majors goalie leaders and the sheer difference between Scott Sterling and everyone else. Scott Sterling (the man, the myth, the legend) is far and away the best goalie in SSL history. I don’t put much stake in wins, (not in baseball, hockey, or soccer. It’s a team stat not an individual one) but he leads that category handily by seventeen wins. Clean sheets however is where the real story is.
Scott Sterling has the Majors clean sheet record with 65 clean sheets, 13 ahead of the next closest. The only active player even in spitting distance is towards the end of their career and appears to be in the minors. Only a handful of active players are in the top twenty for clean sheets, and none of them are particularly early in their career.
Looking at the current state of things I imagine this might be a record that will never be broken. While we have had impressive goalies, and still more are currently plying their trade, Sterling stands above them all.
No I will say as I derided wins earlier as a team statistic that clean sheets are also a testament to the power of the defense as a whole. I cannot attest to how good these defensive lines were ahead of Scott Sterling. At the end of the day I do think clean sheets are a better stat than wins as it means the goalie most likely made at least one save, and unlike a win doesn’t rely on the offense to help them. After all a clean sheet could be a scoreless draw.
I’m curious to see if a new generation of goalie will rise up to challenge the top of this leaderboard, or if these goalies, particularly Sterling, stand that far above the rest.