Winning Streaks
We’re now going to consider teams that have been on a roll, and remained unbeaten for a long period of time. Confidence is an important factor in how sports teams perform. When they’re on the biggest stage, having a series of matches behind them in which they haven’t tasted defeat stands them in good stead when it comes to the crunch moments ahead.
In the analysis in this section we’ll use the Segmentation tool to examine winning streaks. I’m considering streaks in terms of time, rather than number of matches. has been cyprus mobile numbers unbeaten in the last year as being ‘they have played at least one match in the last year and they have not lost in that time’.
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The Segmentation tool allows us to specify a set of time points that we’re interested in reporting on and relating to unbeaten teams. So in the chart below we’ve shown teams that were unbeaten for at least a year on the 1st of June for every year between 2000 and 2018. It would have been easy to extend this back to the 1930s with one simple change to the report.
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This chart shows that the number has gone up and down over the years, but if we look at the most recent data we can see that there are 15 unbeaten teams as of the 1st June 2018 (3). Looking at those teams in a bit more detail we can find some very good teams, along with some that are unexpected. Here they are, together with the number of matches they’ve played in the last year.