I’ve made a topic similar to this but for debounces. I’m just showing my progress and what I’ve been up to. Should I just put everything I learn into one topic, if you can, reply if I should do it or not.
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder",player)
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
local gold = Instance.new("IntValue",leaderstats)
gold.Name = "Gold"
end)
Looks good, but I would advise Parenting your variables after setting your properties & once you’re done with configuring them 
Are you wanting to add DataStores to them as well? Or just that?
Well, considering I’m a week and a half into scripting, I don’t think I’m going to be learning datastores for a little bit.
If you are new to scripting on Roblox, then I recommend checking out their official Education site. It’s a great resource with real game types to work through and learn how they work.