In pursuit of the perfect USTA League season - Does it ever happen?

I recently heard a question asking if a USTA League team has ever won every court all year.  Going into a season, that is certainly the goal, but you would expect it to rarely if ever happen, simply because the NTRP rating system is aiming to have players of similar ability playing each other, and if that is the case you wouldn't think a team could win every court for an entire season.

Naturally, I had to go research it though!  I took a look at 2017 for the 18+ and 40+ divisions to first see if any teams had perfect regular seasons that played at least five team matches.  I found just nine teams that met this criteria:

• An 18+ 4.5 men's team from Idaho went 6-0/30-0 in a two team league
• A 40+ 4.0 men's team from New Jersey went 8-0/40-0 in a two team league
• An 18+ 2.5 women's team from Seattle went 8-0/24-0 in a nine team league
• A 40+ 4.0 men's team from Alabama went 7-0/35-0 in a two team league
• An 18+ 3.5 women's team from Atlanta went 7-0/35-0 in an eight team league
• A 40+ 4.5+ women's team from Louisiana went 6-0/18-0 in a two team league
• An 18+ 2.5 women's team from North Carolina went 9-0/27-0 in a four team league
• A 40+ 4.5+ men's team from Wisconsin went 7-0/35-0 in a two team league
• A 40+ 3.5 men's team from Georgia went 6-0/15-0 (yes half the matches were two courts) in a two team league

We see a full 2/3 of these teams come from two team leagues, and not to discount the accomplishment, but these leagues are often an A and B team, the B team there just to get the A team qualified to advance.

But regardless of how they achieved the perfect regular season, how did these teams do as they advanced?

A number of teams made it to Sectionals and even Nationals, but only one kept perfect run going to Sectionals and that was the Wisconsin 4.5+ team.  They had one local playoff they won 5-0 and went to Sectionals where they had their only loss of the season there falling short of Nationals and ended up losing six total courts.

The Seattle 2.5 team made it to Nationals, but lost courts along the way but did make the semis at Nationals.

So last year at least, there was no perfect season and really, no one terribly close.  And it looks like those perfect season from two team leagues generally did not prepare a team for playoffs as only one of those six teams even made a decent run to Sectionals.