Yes.
It's far more meaningful to look at the points we got, rather than the points a perfect team could have got.
We got 76, meaning we needed 9.2% more to sneak into the playoffs on goal difference.
At 1.652 points per game, we could have played four games more than the teams around us and still not made the last play off spot.
Being nearly 10% better in football is a lot. Doncaster, Wimbledon and Gillingham all would have stayed up with a similar percentage improvement. Rotherham would have been champions. MK Dons, Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland and even Wycombe would have all gone up automatically with 9% more points.
I don't know about the lack of a break, either. We didn't play a competitive match between 21 May and 7 August this year (generously describing the Blackpool game as competitive). Similarly from 13 July 2020 to 5 September 2020, and from 7 March 2020 to 3 July 2020.
Are we really saying that the three games we played more than anyone else 2 years ago are continuing to be relevant to us not getting promoted?