They have lost just once in the past nine games, to league leaders Arsenal – but this most recent run followed one where they did not register a victory in 11 games.
That poor run, too, followed an exceptional one, where the club went nine games unbeaten after their opening day defeat to Liverpool.
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So, the season has been feast or famine for Andoni Iraola’s side.
This is not new – in Iraola’s first season, he had a run of nine games without a win at the start of the campaign, before a run of one defeat in nine, with an unbeaten run of seven in that time.
Seven games without a win followed, before a five-game unbeaten run before a run of two wins in eight games to end the season.
Last term, it was similar – after a solid start to the season, a record-breaking unbeaten run of 11 games started at the end of November and ran to the end of January.
Dango Ouattara's hattrick fired the Cherries to a 5-0 win at the end of that 11-game unbeaten run. (Image: Richard Crease)
After a defeat to Liverpool and a victory at Southampton, the Cherries failed to win in six games, before tasting defeat twice in the final seven games of the campaign.
Andoni Iraola said there is not one reason for why his Bournemouth side seems to fall into this feast or famine pattern.
Rather, he prefers to look at the bigger picture of how those runs fit into the context of the season.
He explained to the Daily Echo: “I think probably there are different reasons for different seasons, and but overall I don't feel If you like see the picture a little bit with more perspective.
“Past season, we did 30 points in the first half, we did 26 in the second half of the season. But if we had got the 30 points and we would have been the same, we would have finished in the same position.
“Okay, you have four points more, but it wouldn't change a lot. Because sometimes when we talk about past season is, no, you were incredible at the beginning and then you were very bad.
“Okay, we did 30 and 26. It's not like there isn’t a difference, but it's not massive. And even if we continue with the 30-30, past season was super difficult and super expensive to get Europe.
“Even with 60, I think Brighton got that and they were out of Europe. So we wouldn't have arrived.
“This season we have the reference of 23. That is not good enough, probably at this level. If we want to, I don't know, to finish in the top 10 or something like this.
Andoni Iraola (Image: Richard Crease)
“I hope we can improve it in the second half. It is true that you see the micros is, yes, good run, bad run, but it's always like this.
“It's probably if we have some in the bad run of 11 games, we have one win there in between, the Burnley game that we lost [two points] in the 90, I don't know how many minutes, and then we don’t win against Everton.
“It's a draw, everything looks level and quite sustained and the performance hasn't changed. So I like to see it with more perspective.”