I'm really struggling to find analogs for a nina that had low heights over the northern plains along with above normal heights over northeast Pacific in October. Also, Europe tends to be above normal.
2011 was no dud, but I see why you mentioned that. No other 3 year span comes close to those though.
eta: 1949-1953 may have been bad even with the low double digits overall, but the law of averages resulting from 2012-2013 ended in our favor.