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20 games isn't going to convince anyone of anything. I'm not sure what might convince people, but 20 games definitely won't cut it. Maybe 30 games over 20 seasons?
And may I point out that .600 over 20 games is 12 wins. 12 wins vs 9 wins over 20 is next to nothing. It's one bad series. It's not like you won only 3 or even only 6 over 20. Even if you had only won 3 of 20, if it was only 1 season, it was still too few games.
The big problem here though is, you asked (in post #3) if anyone else sees this pattern, but obviously not everyone must be going through September swoons, only some teams can as for every game played there must be a winner and a loser. And if it really does happen more to you than you think it should, why do you think your team would be "targetted"? Or do you think other teams just know the secret trick to not go through a "September swoon"? I can't imagine it could be the former, it must be the latter. If you do think you're being targetted, what's your theory? Why you specifically?
What it's much more likely to be in my mind is just a bad stretch of luck, even over seasons. Think of a "September swoon" as flipping a coin and getting tails (I don't think 1 game under .500 over 20 should qualify as a swoon, but if it is to you then let's go there). So 1 season you flip a coin, it comes up tails, and you end up under .500. Next season you flip another coin, you get tails again, and you go under .500 again in September. Season 3 same thing. Season 4 same thing again! 4 seasons in a row going under .500 when you normally go .600, that's crazy, right? The odds of flipping a coin 4 times and getting the same side is 6.25%. 6.25% is crazy, right? No, it's not at all actually. Think of the situation where you have a room full of 100 people, you give them each a coin and have them flip it 4 times. After the first flip, you can expect that about 50 people will flip tails and get to keep going. After 2 you can expect you'll have 25, after 3 about 12 and after 4 about 6. It's just not crazy at all, some people, just by chance are going to have a run of bad luck and maybe it's you right now.
The fact is, humans love to see patterns in things, it's just how we're wired. We'll see a pattern in almost anything given enough time and interest to look at it. And while it may be a pattern to you and others who may go through it, plenty of other people just won't see it that way.
But again, I don't think 1 game under .500 over 20 when you normally go .600 should count as a swoon. It's just not big enough of a sample. Keep trying to improve your team and keep recording how well you do the last 30 games of the season and I'm sure over time you'll see sometimes you do better, sometimes you'll do worse, but usually you'll do somewhere close to your regular record if not a little worse simply because other people are trying to improve their teams too.
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