Daily Digits: Teams usually don’t get blown out this bad, this often

Daily Digits is a new daily feature we’re doing at Bullets Forever this year where we take a look at stats about the Wizards. We’ll dive into the numbers, add some context, and discuss how they affect the product on the court.

Today’s stat is the franchise record for most losses in a season by over 20 points, set by the Bullets in 1993-94 with...

That Bullets team—the one led by Don McLean, Rex Chapman, and Tom Gugliotta, and the final one Wes Unseld ever coached—went 24-58. One of out of every four losses was a blowout by 20 points or more, and nearly one out of every five games fit the criteria.

Washington made some drastic moves over the next few months to try and correct the course of a…