Speaking Streaks - NL West

I'm stopping looking for these 'predictive' streaks after today - the American League will just have to live without knowing the future, I guess.

Let's see if I can explain this again - I'm looking at each team for certain dates within the first two months of the season, dates on which games played through the years have shown historical streaks of 'predictiveness', in that wins on those dates corresponded to winning seasons, and, conversely, losses to losing seasons. I'm also checking game position (from game number one to game number fifty) to see if seeing the seasons that way may also reveal a lengthy 'predictive' streak or two.

Now for the NL West...

---The Diamondbacks have the distinction of having a 'predictive' streak that's lasted for their entire history. Game No. 33 on their schedule has pointed in the direction that their season will end up since 1998 (this year that game's scheduled to be May 10 against the Dodgers). May 8 (which on 2001 WAS Game No. 33) has acted as a 'predictive streak' since 2000, although Arizona didn't play on that date in 2003 or 2006.

---The Dodgers have the most spectacularly long 'predictive' streak in the NL, made even more spectacular by the fact that the next longest streak that they have, in April 23rd games, has lasted only since 2004. The big streak is on May 25 (with gaps in 2000 and 2006 when the team didn't play on May 25), and that streak has lasted since 1994,... and if you discount 1993, when the Dodgers went 81-81, then the streak has continued all the way back to 1990.

---The Giants' longest streak, conversely, has lasted only since 2005, on April 7 (which they already won this year).

---The Padres' longest 'predictive' streak is Game No. 48 on their schedule, a streak that has lasted since 2001. Their next longest streak is Game No. 24, which has gone on since 2002.

---The Rockies' longest streaks go back to 2003, on May 12 and 24, and Game No. 2 (which they lost this year), and Game No. 47.