In basketball if you beat a team 4 times in a row after they stomped you out 3 times in a row and proved they were the better team than you got it for real.
In baseball or hockey sure, they score less. But the will and determination it would take to overcome the better team 4 times is almost inhuman and impossible from a 8 or 9 person group.
They'd have to make a movie or something after that