2023 has seen the Washington Sentinels amass a 9-0 record to this point. Since 2001, it is only the eighth time that a team has won at least 8 game in a row. Last time we looked at win streaks was in 2021, and it was every team to that point to have won at least 5 in a row. I can’t seem to find that spreadsheet from that, so I had to start over, which played heavily into limited it to 8 games or more.
Here are the other occurrences;
| Manager | Year | Streak |
| Dave | 2002 | 8 |
| Dave | 2005 | 8 |
| Dave | 2014 | 8 |
| Jason | 2015 | 10 |
| John | 2017 | 9 |
| Trigger | 2019 | 9 |
| Matt | 2022 | 11 |
| Josh | 2023 | 9 |
Of these eight, only John Sanchez and Matt Alley went on to win the title. But who’s run was the most impressive in the moment? It can be hard to judge because of the way the scoring has changed, but some of these teams got real lucky, and others exerted pure dominance.
| Manager | Year | Streak | Average Win | % of Total |
| Dave | 2002 | 8 | 486.50 | 57.99% |
| Dave | 2005 | 8 | 343.75 | 55.25% |
| Matt | 2022 | 11 | 392.18 | 55.04% |
| Dave | 2014 | 8 | 454.75 | 54.86% |
| Trigger | 2019 | 9 | 400.11 | 54.82% |
| John | 2017 | 9 | 369.33 | 54.71% |
| Josh | 2023 | 9 | 302.78 | 54.35% |
| Jason | 2015 | 10 | 275.20 | 53.13% |
As we can see, the oldest streak on the board is Dave’s 8-gamer back in 2002. What’s most impressive about it is the average margin of victory – 486 points – is based off NON-WEIGHTED scores. That means, at a time in our history where 1600 points was gonna get a win most week, Dave was beating ass by almost 500 per week. He scored pretty much 58% of the total points in that streak – by far the highest mark to date.
The longest streak belongs to Matt, just last year. SECOND DECK’s 11-gamer is also good for the third most dominant scoring percentage as well. Only one other team (Murphy’s Innies) has ever hit the 10 game mark, and they rank dead last in scoring differential.
So how about our current leader? Well, after week 9, he’s look a lot better than he was after week 7. Let’s take a look how his ranking has changed in recent weeks;
| Josh | 2023 | 7 | 251.43 | 53.76% |
| Josh | 2023 | 2 | 482.50 | 56.09% |
Over his first seven games, Josh averaged 1797 ppg, and he won by an average of 251 points for 53.7% of the scoring. That would have ranked him dead last on the big list, and behind Jason’s 2015 team.
Over the last two weeks however, his PPG jumped to 2222, with an average win of 483. That’s 56.09%, which would rank second only to Dave’s 2002 team.
As of now, the Week 10 matchup sees Josh squaring off against the Skippers, and while both teams need to make some lineup changes, as they each have an empty spot for the week, but Jones is currently projected as a heavy favorite by Yahoo – and we all know how reliable that is.
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