« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2019, 02:46:40 PM »
The list seems a little scattered to me and I think that may be due to how we are defining “disappointing”. For some of the seasons, the disappointment seems to purely be a function on expectations vs. results. But then some of the seasons were just bad seasons.
I agree with you -- it's important, and difficult, to define what is meant by "disappointing."
I began making this list by looking at the seasons where there was the biggest gap between the winning percentage of the season before and the winning percentage of the following season.
That will leave out a lot of seasons where the team won a lot of games in the regular season but had a disappointing result for whatever reason. It also leaves out seasons that might have been disappointing but were preceded by an even worse season.
I agree that the key distinction is between seasons where the end result was bad or frustrating, and seasons where there was a huge gap between expectations and results.
For the most part I was looking at "disappointing" as a function of the latter.
I do think that that kind of disappointment is the most appropriate comparison to this season, since in many respects this has been a perfectly fine season by lots of objective measures, yet many people seem to be really down on the team because the pre-season expectations were so high.
For sure. The '14 season was bad but I wasn't disappointed because the expectations were: tank. This season, there was never even a fear of missing the playoffs but it's been incredibly disappointing, because of the expectations.
So yeah, expectations are instrumental in creating disappointment.
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