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Offline OldChelsea

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Re: Nationals vs Marlins, Game 3
« Reply #50: May 03, 2021, 08:08:45 AM »
must show this on last thread page.

2021 is now nearing or ahead of some respectable seasons and distancing the bad ones .  06-09, 20, but also 15, 18, 19, plus within 2 games of 11, 05, 10, 13& 14.

If you order it by team games played rather than calendar dates, it looks a bit more respectable.

2012 - 21st April (16th match of season)
2016 - 22nd April (16th match)
2017 - 22nd of April (17th match)
2010 - 28th April (22nd match)
2005 - 29th April (23rd match)
2013 - 26th April (23rd match)
2014 - 23rd April (23rd match)
2021 - 2nd May (24th match)
2011 - 29th April (25th match)
2015 - 3rd May (26th match)
2019 - 28th April [26th match)
2018 - 29th April (28th match)
2008 - 1st May (29th match)
2020 - 28th August (29th match)
2006 - 9th May (33rd match)
2009 - 17th May (33rd match)
2007 - 13th May (37th match)

You have three seasons with a hot start, then eight seasons, including this one, where the team was within two games of .500 when it reached 12 wins, then three where the team was solidly below .500, and then three dumpster fires. Of course, this really doesn't tell you much, since you have 2018, where the team was 12-16 and finished 82-80, right next to 2008, where the team was 12-17 and finished 59-102.

What's skewing the listing a bit, at this relatively early point in the season, is the varying starting dates: the present season plus 2009 and 2015 all began on 6th April, which apart from 2020 are the latest starts in 17 Washington seasons. This should become less of a factor as sample sizes increase.