You want stats for the proposition that a team can be at their best at a point in the season and then regress from that top level of play?
WTF is wrong with you? That happens all the damn time.
What in the world was stupid about it? This was a win we needed, we should have gotten, we did not get, and there are significant repercussions as a result of not getting it.
That's a bad loss, stupid.