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The wild card series should be 5 games
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:01 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:01 am
A 162 game season with a 3 game series in the first round is laughable
And I held this belief way before the astros got bounced so don’t come at me with that BS
And I held this belief way before the astros got bounced so don’t come at me with that BS
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Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:04 am to foosball
Baseball postseason is the worst and most complicated to understand in all of sports.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:04 am to foosball
It is a little gross for a 3 seed and division winner to go out that quickly. At least it's not one game.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:06 am to foosball
going to that adds a week to the round- you would have at least 2 travel/off days if it goes 5
i like this version- all in one place, no wasted days
i like this version- all in one place, no wasted days
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:09 am to foosball
I like it. I like the excitement and no days off.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 9:10 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:09 am to LSUMJ
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going to that adds a week to the round- you would have at least 2 travel/off days if it goes 5 i like this version- all in one place, no wasted days
Oh the horror
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:10 am to Bunk Moreland
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It is a little gross for a 3 seed and division winner to go out that quickly.
Play better. It ain’t little league. Show up or go home. If you don’t want to be in the wild card series get yourself in a better position to not be.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 9:34 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:23 am to foosball
Baseball really is something how you play 162 games and your season can end in a blink of an eye in the postseason. I felt the same even when the LDSs were 5 games.
A pre-strike two team playoff makes more sense than the current playoffs because the old way put more emphasis on playing well over the course of the entire long season. Which is the whole reason MLB plays 162 games. What’s the point of playing 162 games just to have 3 non-division winners make it.
A pre-strike two team playoff makes more sense than the current playoffs because the old way put more emphasis on playing well over the course of the entire long season. Which is the whole reason MLB plays 162 games. What’s the point of playing 162 games just to have 3 non-division winners make it.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 9:30 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:23 am to foosball
It’s better than the one game playoff which was completely stupid. It gives the 1 and 2 seeds a chance to rest their pitching and the advantage. Only disadvantage I can think of is that seeds 1 and 2 get a longer break and may be out of rhythm, but baseball is strange.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:26 am to foosball
Everyone should get a participant trophy as well. Hang the banner Atlanta, Houston, Milwaukee, Baltimore.
Signed
-Cubs Fan
Signed
-Cubs Fan
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:26 am to foosball
I disagree. Playoffs continue to get longer and longer in all sports because it makes money for television. Three is enough. If you do want to extend playoff series, shorten the regular season. I’ve always thought that 162 games was overkill, and I stand behind that even more in today’s game with all the rest days players are given, along with starting pitchers’ stints being shortened to prevent wear and tear on their arms.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:29 am to danilo
Bingo. The playoffs can't drag onto mid November.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:29 am to foosball
Highest variance sport playing extremely short series is completely terrible.
They've overexpanded the playoffs and let too many mediocre teams in and then they structure the playoff in such a way that gives those mediocre teams the absolutely best shot possible to knock off the more deserving teams.
Just awful.
They've overexpanded the playoffs and let too many mediocre teams in and then they structure the playoff in such a way that gives those mediocre teams the absolutely best shot possible to knock off the more deserving teams.
Just awful.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:42 am to bradygolf98
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Baseball postseason is the worst and most complicated to understand in all of sports.
It used to be extremely simple and great. But TV money rules all
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A pre-strike two team playoff makes more sense than the current playoffs because the old way put more emphasis on playing well over the course of the entire long season. Which is the whole reason MLB plays 162 games. What’s the point of playing 162 games just to have 3 non-division winners make it.
I’d love for them to go back to 4 divisions, those winners play each other in a best of 7 and then best of 7 WS. But that will never happen obviously. It’s a matter of time until they expand it to 8 in each league getting in, likely when they expand to 32 teams in a few years. Sports have gotten pretty gay
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 9:45 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 9:54 am to foosball
Tell me your team didn’t win the wild card without telling me they didn’t win the wild card.
Now, totally disagree with you. That turns the advantage to the wildcard team in the divisional series. Can’t have a team sit that long. Divisional teams already complain three game is sitting too long, either eliminate the extra wild card teams or keep it at three games. Only ways that keep it fair to teams that had great seasons.
Now, totally disagree with you. That turns the advantage to the wildcard team in the divisional series. Can’t have a team sit that long. Divisional teams already complain three game is sitting too long, either eliminate the extra wild card teams or keep it at three games. Only ways that keep it fair to teams that had great seasons.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 10:21 am to bradygolf98
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Baseball postseason is the worst and most complicated to understand in all of sports.
I could not disagree more.
First, how is it hard to understand? There are 3 divisions in each league. The winners of those divisions make the playoffs. The division winners with the best records get byes. Then there are three wildcard teams who are the 3 non-division winners with the best records. All of the teams are seeded 1-6. 1 & 2 get byes. 3 hosts 6 and 4 hosts 5 in a 3 game WC series. The winner of the 4/5 series plays the 1 seed in the LDS. The winner of the 3/6 series plays the 2 seed in a 5 game series. The winners of the LDS then play in the LCS. Those winners then play in the World Series.
How is any of that complicated?
The NBA postseason is beyond stupid. First, it lasts almost 2.5 months! Second, over 1/2 of the league makes the playoffs, thus watering down that accomplishment. Then they've added the stupid play-in games.
The NFL has the drama of winner take all games, but they are only once a week for 3 weeks.
The MLB does it right to condense everything in to one month. They still play series, but don't take a bunch of needless off days in between games like the NBA. Unlike the NFL, you get high drama pretty much daily in the MLB because of the condensed schedule. The first 2 days of the playoffs were the closest thing to the NCAA tournament where you get wall to wall playoff games from 1:00pm to 11:00 pm (earlier on the west coast).
Of the three major sports I follow MLB the least. However, their playoffs rarely fail to deliver high drama and are, IMO, the best of the group
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I’d love for them to go back to 4 divisions,
When did MLB ever have 4 divisions? Are you talking about when there were 3 division winners + 1 WC team?
I think MLB had kind of hit its sweet spot with the playoffs. Six teams per league is probably just enough to keep the most amount of fans engaged for longer, but no too many to completely water down the accomplishment of reaching the playoffs.
This post was edited on 10/4/24 at 10:28 am
Posted on 10/4/24 at 10:25 am to Alt26
Why does baseball need 12 teams in the playoffs?
Posted on 10/4/24 at 10:31 am to chalmetteowl
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Why does baseball need 12 teams in the playoffs?
Why does it not?
Why does the NFL need 14 teams?
8 teams were fine. But I don't think 12 waters things down too much relative to advantage of keeping more fans interested longer (because their teams are in contention...even if not for a division titlte)
MLB's issue is not the postseason. It's the absurdly and unnecessarily long regular season. They aren't going to, mostly because of money, but they could cut at least 40 games off of the schedule and be just fine.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 10:36 am to chalmetteowl
Go back to four teams per league - 3 Division champs and 1 Wild Card.
That's the sweet spot. It rewards teams who proved themselves over a 162 game season but also insures that if the two clearly best teams happened to be in the same division then both will still get in.
Posted on 10/4/24 at 10:38 am to Alt26
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However, their playoffs rarely fail to deliver high drama and are, IMO, the best of the group
I couldn't agree more with you here (but only since you didn't include NHL, I give the playoff excitement of NHL the nod slightly over MLB).
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First, how is it hard to understand?
It took you a full paragraph to explain how it works. Take NHL or NBA for example, 7 game series in a repeating home/away format until there's a champion.
In the MLB you start with a 3 game series, then you go to a 5 game series, then you go to a 7 game series for the last two matchups. Also they do home field different from everyone else with the 2-3-2 format.
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The NBA postseason is beyond stupid. First, it lasts almost 2.5 months! Second, over 1/2 of the league makes the playoffs, thus watering down that accomplishment. Then they've added the stupid play-in games.
I'm also not arguing which is stupid or watered down, I said it's hard to understand because none of it is consistent.
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