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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:16 am
by phonedata
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If we then add this information to a data grid and then order them by this aggregated value then we see the top few teams as below.

Grid of teams

This seems on the face of it quite astonishing. Firstly, that there aren’t many of the international footballing powerhouses in the list above, and secondly that the values are croatia phone number example extremely large. The 18,198 days of Slovakia’s longest time between two losses is nearly 50 years! Let us take a closer look at the match data to sense check this result.

Match data results

So, the data looks accurate, they didn’t play a match for 48 years – but this isn’t really quite what we would really want as there are large gaps between the matches. that teams should have no large gaps between matches. We can do this using the ‘Max Days between Transactions’ property. If we set this to 365 days then this will ensure that a team can only have a valid sequence of matches if they have had at least one match every year.

This then gives the following results which does have some teams that we might have expected to see in the top 10 by such a metric:

Football results

This can be corroborated by delving further into Scotland’s almost 9 year non-losing streak and finding that it started with a loss on 05/04/1879 and then had only wins and draws until the next loss on 17/03/1888.