Decade	Win	Loss	Win%	Playoff	Best	Owner
--------------	----------	----------	-------------	----------	----------	----------
1900	947	745	0.560	5.0	93	redwingscup
1910	942	750	0.557	4.0	87	schwarze
1940	918	774	0.543	3.0	89	ozomatli
1990	872	820	0.515	5.0	81	multiple
1980	841	851	0.497	2.0	87	mildnhazy
1960	835	857	0.493	1.0	83	schwarze
1970	829	863	0.490	3.0	84	brianjw
1920	814	878	0.481	0.0	81	skunk206
1930	796	896	0.470	0.0	74	GuerillaZen1
2000	791	901	0.467	0.0	76	slainte
1950	788	904	0.466	0.0	72	njbigwig
2010	779	913	0.460	1.0	74	mildnhazy
--------------	----------	----------	----------	----------
N.L.	5205	4947	+258	24
A.L.	4947	5205

Grp	Name	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010	Wins	Total
-----	------------------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------
A	mpitt76	74		73		70		57		71		73		418	771
A	calhoop		74		54		64		53		63		45	353
B	schwarze		87				65	83	72		71		61	439	871
B	ozomatli	79		73	68	89				71		52		432
C	ejstockman		72		66		70		64		66		67	405	790
C	d_rock97	73		55		73		71		53		60		385
D	Jtpsops		79		71		63		58		71		72	414	854
D	dougpalm	83		69		78		64		72		74		440
E	GuerillaZen1	71	77		74	75	67	72						436	832
E	zlionsfan			72					61	68	74	53	68	396
F	slainte							70	73	74	80	76	66	439	901
F	PennQuaker	89	83	73	73	85	59							462
G	njbigwig		75		71		72		74		69		61	422	865
G	pedrocerrano	83		67		76		72		71		74		443
H	duece_duece	70		76		74		71		65		69		425	854
H	brianjw		77		58		67		84		79		64	429
I	skunk206		70	81	67				77	81	81			457	885
I	redwingscup	93				69	66	62				69	69	428
J	bardin		79		61		66	59	67			62		394	846
J	mildnhazy	87		61		74				87	69		74	452
K	buddhagamer	70		52		75		77		64		63		401	835
K	justinlee_24		83		66		68		80		68		69	434
L	batandball	75			67		61	77	66				63	409	848
L	Relkcirts		86	62		80				64	81	66		439
-----	------------------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------	-------
	Total Wins	947	942	814	796	918	788	835	829	841	872	791	779
	Rank	1	2	8	9	3	11	6	7	5	4	10	12
	Average	78.9	78.5	67.8	66.3	76.5	65.7	69.6	69.1	70.1	72.7	65.9	64.9	423

Name	Group	Wins	AvgWins	Playoff	Diff
------------------	--------	--------	-------------	----------	--------
skunk206	I	457	424.5	3	32.5
PennQuaker	F	462	433.8	2	28.2
slainte	F	439	412.3	0	26.7
mildnhazy	J	452	430.9	3	21.1
schwarze	B	439	420.4	3	18.6
justinlee_24	K	434	417.2	2	16.8
pedrocerrano	G	443	428.8	0	14.2
brianjw	H	429	417.2	2	11.8
dougpalm	D	440	428.8	1	11.2
Relkcirts	L	439	431.5	3	7.5
redwingscup	I	428	421.5	1	6.5
ozomatli	B	432	425.6	2	6.4
njbigwig	G	422	417.2	1	4.8
GuerillaZen1	E	436	435.5	0	0.5
Jtpsops	D	414	417.2	0	-3.2
duece_duece	H	425	428.8	0	-3.8
batandball	L	409	414.5	0	-5.5
mpitt76	A	418	428.8	0	-10.8
ejstockman	C	405	417.2	0	-12.2
zlionsfan	E	396	410.5	1	-14.5
bardin	J	394	415.1	0	-21.1
buddhagamer	K	401	428.8	0	-27.8
d_rock97	C	385	428.8	0	-43.8
calhoop	A	353	417.2	0	-64.2
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Total/Average		423	423	24	0.0

The inconsistency in this game is retarded. 52-36, 5 up in division, 2nd best record in the league. Since then, 20-34, now 9 games back. There's no reason for a collapse like that, especially when fatigue isn't an issue.

Momentum exists! Just kidding, but my 20's team recently suffered the same fate. A 4-game division lead became a 3-game deficit in just a few days. These things happen, no reason is needed.

I too have noticed the wild streaks, both good and bad. I think it is related to these 5-game series as well as the noticable difference in decade quality. If my 70's team is playing a 5-game series vs 1910's, then that could easily be a 1-4 or 0-5 run, but if that same 70's team is playing 1930's, it could flip to 4-1 or 5-0. You could easily have 3 or 4 of your 6 teams playing in one of those mismatches - the result being a good or bad streak.

I just checked my recent opponents (I went 20-10 between the last two updates), and the cumulative record of those 6 opponents was 32 games below .500, so that explains the recent success. I'm sure I'm due for a 12-18 run coming soon, as it appears I will be playing some of the better teams, all at the same time.

I decided to look up my win totals over consecutive sessions. The following chart shows the number of occurance for each win total for every consecutive two-set (12 games), three-set (18 games) and four-set (24 games) runs. My team is a little over .500 for the year, but notice how in the 18 game-run, it's more common for my teams to go 7-11, 8-10, 10-8 & 11-7 than 9-9. Same phenomenon happens in the 24 game run. Over 24 consecutive games (4-sets), my team is just as likely to go 9-15 & 10-14 (31 times total) than to go 11-13 & 12-12 (30 times total).
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Wins	12 G	18 G	24 G
---------	---------	---------	---------
0
1
2
3	9
4	15
5	26	5
6	32	7
7	28	22	1
8	18	21	6
9	11	18	14
10	3	25	17
11		21	12
12		14	18
13		6	26
14		2	18
15			15
16			10
17			1
18			1
19			1

How about this for streaky.

My 1920's team started very lack lustre and then got struck with a number of high extra IP games, sent in spirally into pitching fatigue combined with poor hitting to get to a 0.300 winning % after 123 games (37W-86L).

Then for some unknown reason it has proceeded to go 17W-3L in its last 20 (an .850 win%).

Too little and way too late but damn frustrating for sure.

Not trying to argue with anyone here but isn't that how real baseball works too, if the best teams at the 50 or 100 game mark won the division every season then why would anyone manage their team past that mark if they were say 8 games out at that point, streaks happen, it's part of the real game as well as in this one. I've been on both ends and almost everyone says the first place team choked or gave it away and rarely ever does anyone give the team trailing credit for putting together a great "down the stretch" run to TAKE the division. Is almost like we expect teams to lay down and die if they aren't as good through the first half or 3/4 of the season and we also start "counting the chickens" if we have a 10 game lead when the magic number comes out at the 120 game mark. That's not how things work in real life and I'm kinda glad it doesn't work that way here either.

I'm not talking about teams overcoming a 2-3 game deficit. Not many teams go 16 games over in the first half and 16 games under in the second.

There are a lot of huge swings like that in this game and it seems very unrealistic.

First 6-0 of the tournament in the AM cycle.

Not realistic? Tell that to the '11 Red Sox, '11 Braves, '64 Phillies, '69 Cubs, etc. Or how about the '51 Giants closing the season 37-7 to tie the Dodgers? Or the '06 Twins with a 49-27 record after the break to catch the Tigers, who had started 59-29 then closed the second half 36-38? These things happen.

I'll add an even more recent example... See A's, Oakland 2014 HIt the All Star Break in first place with a 51-30 record and 5-1/2 game lead. Finished the season 88-74 and 10 games back. They were in first place as late as game #130 before going 11-21 down the home stretch.

"Not many teams go 16 games over in the first half and 16 games under in the second."

Where did I say it never happens? I said it happens far too often in the SIM. The rate at which it seems to occur is what is unrealistic.