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re: How do we feel about the one game Wild Card playoff in MLB?
Posted on 10/1/15 at 9:53 am to rlebl39
Posted on 10/1/15 at 9:53 am to rlebl39
Should be 3 games immediately after the season ends. The DS with the wildcard teams can start a few days after.
1 game to decide winner is awful and is the kind of stupidity the NCAA would come up with and not MLB who's supposed to know that baseball is intented to be played in series.
1 game to decide winner is awful and is the kind of stupidity the NCAA would come up with and not MLB who's supposed to know that baseball is intented to be played in series.
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 9:56 am to The Sad Banana
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How do we feel about the one game Wild Card playoff in MLB?
I love it this year.
I don't really see any other way to do this without causing a unfair delay to the division winner waiting to play the wild card series winner. As it is now, the season ends Sunday, and the Cardinals don't start the NLDS until Friday. If it was a 3 game series, they may not start until Sunday or Monday. That's a long time off.
Then again, baseball teams aren't built to win one game, so this playoff goes completely against what teams are doing all year, and even into the playoffs. But, the counter to that is just win your division, and you don't have to worry about it.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 9:56 am to BayouBengals03
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They could play a doubleheader. WC1 needs to win 1 game, while WC2 needs to win both games. Won't happen, just an idea.
That's not a bad idea.
Personally I would like the see the regular season reduced to 160 games and make the Wild Card play-in a 3 game series. Nobody is going to miss 2 games of a 162 game schedule.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 9:56 am to The Sad Banana
Honestly, at first I didn't like it, but it has grown on me. It makes winning your division super important which I like. The excitement for the wild card game is like an immediate Game 7.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:00 am to RollDatRoll
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Honestly, at first I didn't like it, but it has grown on me. It makes winning your division super important which I like. The excitement for the wild card game is like an immediate Game 7.
But it still needs to be reseeded. It's "rewarding" the Cardinals for winning the division by potentially making them play the team with the second best record in baseball in the Divisional Round. That's not fair.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:10 am to Chucktown_Badger
Absolutely need to reseed following the Wild Card game.
This year you will have two of the three best teams (record wise) out of contention after the Division Series. Cubs or Pirates should play the Dodgers and Cards should play the Mets
This year you will have two of the three best teams (record wise) out of contention after the Division Series. Cubs or Pirates should play the Dodgers and Cards should play the Mets
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:35 am to The Sad Banana
I like it... you have 162 games to win your division. If you dont, you had 162 games...
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:38 am to The Sad Banana
I like it. Emphasizes winning your division.
I understand the "Cubs and Pirates have better records than Mets/Dodgers" argument but it fails because the schedules are not balanced. Each team plays 76 games against its own division. If the schedules were all the same across the league it would be a valid argument but at that point there would be no purpose for divisions.
I still think we are headed toward 32 teams, with two 8-team divisions in each league where the division winners and 2 wild cards get into the playoffs. That, or four 4-team divisions in each league where the 4 division winners and 2 wild cards get in like the NFL.
I understand the "Cubs and Pirates have better records than Mets/Dodgers" argument but it fails because the schedules are not balanced. Each team plays 76 games against its own division. If the schedules were all the same across the league it would be a valid argument but at that point there would be no purpose for divisions.
I still think we are headed toward 32 teams, with two 8-team divisions in each league where the division winners and 2 wild cards get into the playoffs. That, or four 4-team divisions in each league where the 4 division winners and 2 wild cards get in like the NFL.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:38 am to chalmetteowl
quote:Yet your record is better than everyone else in baseball with the exception of the division winner. Or in the Cubs case, the runner up and the division winner.
you have 162 games to win your division.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:39 am to The Sad Banana
quote:So, 163 games.
162 games is a long, long season to have hinge on a one-game playoff.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:41 am to Chucktown_Badger
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But it still needs to be reseeded. It's "rewarding" the Cardinals for winning the division by potentially making them play the team with the second best record in baseball in the Divisional Round. That's not fair.
This argument would only make sense if teams played a balanced schedule
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:45 am to TROLA
Cut the season back down to 158 games and make the wild card a 3 game series.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 11:03 am to The Sad Banana
Terrible idea for a number of reasons. At the very least, they should change the format so a division winner with a worse record than a wild card team has to be in the play-in game.
It's unfair that a Pirates team that might win 98, 99 games has to play the play-in game.
It's unfair that a Pirates team that might win 98, 99 games has to play the play-in game.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 11:21 am to The Sad Banana
I mean this year could be an outlier that happens once every 20 years, but it's ridiculous that the 2nd or 3rd best record in baseball will be out after one game.
It's even more ridiculous when you look at how both teams performed against the NL West and NL East. The Dodgers and Mets should be playing it.
But I'm just a salty Pirates fan shitting in my pants about the fact that Arrietta is pitching the WC game.
It's even more ridiculous when you look at how both teams performed against the NL West and NL East. The Dodgers and Mets should be playing it.
But I'm just a salty Pirates fan shitting in my pants about the fact that Arrietta is pitching the WC game.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 11:26 am to KillerNut9
The Dodgers won the season series against the Cubs 
But I would agree with the just if your post. Baseball needs to change its playoffs
But I would agree with the just if your post. Baseball needs to change its playoffs
This post was edited on 10/1/15 at 11:28 am
Posted on 10/1/15 at 11:29 am to WestCoastAg
I assumed my part about the Cubs because I knew the Pirates demolished both divisions and teams
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:21 pm to The Sad Banana
Wild Card: 3 games
Division: 5 games
Championship: 7 games
World Series: 7 games
Division: 5 games
Championship: 7 games
World Series: 7 games
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:27 pm to The Sad Banana
It shouldn't exist but I would be much more tolerant of it if it was a 3 game series. 5 games is too long to make the other teams wait but this is baseball, a one game playoff is ludicrous unless we are talking about ties
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:33 pm to WestCoastAg
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The Dodgers won the season series against the Cubs
They won the season series 4 games to 3, and they were played in June and August. Not sure I'd point to that being indicative of much of anything...other than perhaps these are two good teams and it could go either way.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:34 pm to The Sad Banana
As a Stros fan, I could be a direct beneficiary of it and hate it. It's stupid and pollutes the game. 1-game playoffs are for tiebreakers, not arbitrarily created postseason nonsense.
The monstrosity of the 2012 Braves-Cardinals game was an insult to the game (and I don't like the Barves at all).
The monstrosity of the 2012 Braves-Cardinals game was an insult to the game (and I don't like the Barves at all).
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