Stats

[scawsby steve]

Can Dutch Uncle, BST, or any stats expert on here tell us what our longest winning run, and longest undefeated run, have been over the last 10 years?

It doesn't feel to me like it will be much, as it has been with some clubs.

I only seem to remember winning runs of around 5 or 6, and undefeated runs of around 7 or 8.

[Bentley Bullet]

Scroll down to 1969....

https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/club/club-history/140-years-of-history/#:~:text=1969,remains%20Rovers'%20longest%20unbeaten%20run.

[Bentley Bullet]

Bugger! Didn't see the last 10 years bit!

[drfchound]

Scroll down to 1969....

https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/club/club-history/140-years-of-history/#:~:text=1969,remains%20Rovers'%20longest%20unbeaten%20run.

Good stats there BB.
Twenty games undefeated is some run.
When the OP went up I immediately thought that 1947 could have had some good records and it confirmed in your list that our run of ten consecutive wins in that year is still our best ever.

Edit.
I had seen that last ten years but but just expanded on it.....for balance.

[scawsby steve]

What about the last 10 years?

The reason I ask is because I don't think it's much. We always seem to do what we've done so far this season; beat the big teams, and then lose to the lesser teams.

[DMnumber4]

There was a twelve game unbeaten run (including 9 wins) away from home from September 2012 - February 2013 during the promotion season.
Lost just 4 of 23 away games!

[Dutch Uncle]

We actually had a run of 10 league games undefeated in 2016-17 in League 2.

After the infamous defeat at Plymouth with Copps' Red Card after the Keeper goading Mandeville's missed penalty we won 7 and drew 3 of the next 10 before losing at Carlisle.

10 match unbeaten league runs (including two that started at the end of one season and continued into the next) do not happen that often - we have had 15 in our entire FL and Conference history. We are in our 94th season so that is about one every 6.25 years on average. However 9 of the 15 occurred before 1954, and 3 occurred in our overwhelming 1946-47 season. So the 6 in the 66 years since 1954 have come at one every 11 years. 

Edit: Just seen the other part of the question

In the middle of that 10 game unbeaten run in 2016-17 was a 5 game winning sequence. That was our 20th and most recent such run. The previous one was in 2006-07. 20 in 94 seasons means waiting nearly 5 years on average.

11 of those runs stretched to 6 games or more, with the last being in 2003-04.

Only 4 runs have extended to a sequence of 7 or more wins with the most recent being our club record 10 match winning run in 1946-47. (By the way I have counted this as one 5 game run, not 2  )

[scawsby steve]

We actually had a run of 10 league games undefeated in 2016-17 in League 2.

After the infamous defeat at Plymouth with Copps' Red Card after the Keeper goading Mandeville's missed penalty we won 7 and drew 3 of the next 10 before losing at Carlisle.

10 match unbeaten league runs (including two that started at the end of one season and continued into the next) do not happen that often - we have had 15 in our entire FL and Conference history. We are in our 94th season so that is about one every 6.25 years on average. However 9 of the 15 occurred before 1954, and 3 occurred in our overwhelming 1946-47 season. So the 6 in the 66 years since 1954 have come at one every 11 years. 

Edit: Just seen the other part of the question

In the middle of that 10 game unbeaten run in 2016-17 was a 5 game winning sequence. That was our 20th and most recent such run. The previous one was in 2006-07. 20 in 94 seasons means waiting nearly 5 years on average.

11 of those runs stretched to 6 games or more, with the last being in 2003-04.

Only 4 runs have extended to a sequence of 7 or more wins with the most recent being our club record 10 match winning run in 1946-47. (By the way I have counted this as one 5 game run, not 2  )

Thanks for that Dutch. It confirms my thoughts that the winning runs have been around 5 matches.