I'm only commenting on what's been announced...one extra playoff game in each league. We can judge that.
Sandra
Looks like MLB is adding one more playoff team
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I'm only commenting on what's been announced...one extra playoff game in each league. We can judge that.
Sandra
Watch the chaos ensue when a game 163 is needed to break a tie between two teams for that last wild card spot. Teams flying everywhere for these one game playoffs. Ridiculous.
Maybe they will add a detailed tie-breaking procedure like the NFL has, instead....
Watch the chaos ensue when a game 163 is needed to break a tie between two teams for that last wild card spot. Teams flying everywhere for these one game playoffs. Ridiculous.
Maybe they will add a detailed tie-breaking procedure like the NFL has, instead....
Maybe. It would probably be extremely rare, but extra 'game sevens' can only be a good thing.
Sandra
Or what the owners can benefit from. I LOVE this game more than any other...and the difference between when the commissioner ran the league for "what is best for baseball" and now are different.
I'm not sure what this means, Ramy. Are you saying you don't want to add one more playoff team because you don't trust Selig? Don't trust him how?
Sandra
Well, if so, the addition of another wild card team on TOP of eliminating divisions would only benefit major market teams. Middle class teams, whose only hopes of making the playoffs would be to win their division will suffer.
bingo. It just makes the major market teams road to the playoffs easier
Sure...if you seriously want to call one game to make it into the ALDS the 'playoffs'. I don't.
Sandra
I'm confused. You called it a playoff when you opened the thread.
Common definitions of the word 'playoffs' would seem to agree: a series of contests played after the end of the regular season to determine a championship ...
Yeah, sorry for the confusion...I'm probably not wording it correctly.
My point is that this does NOT help teams like the Yankees and Red Sox (while others are saying it does), because instead of 'winning' the wild card and going right into the ALDS (like they do now), going forward they wiill have to win a one game playoff to get into the ALDS instead.
That's what I mean about it not being an advantage to big market teams.
Sandra
This is to allow Boston and Tampa Bay to be the top 2 teams and STILL find a way to get the yankees into it.
Then I guess the NFL does not have a playoff system.
I am not crazy about all of this either. But a playoff system can be a series of single elimantion games, progressive rounds of best x out of y or a combination of the two.
its considered the playoffs....If you play a game after the rest of the teams are done for the year that would be the "playoffs"
Even Detroit/Minnesota Game 163 was considered the "playoffs"
