Baseball playoffs scheduling-home field

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What am I missing?

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the fact that teams with better records are going on the road first now.

2 first games in BAL/TEX, Next 3 games ( 2 IF necessary) in NY.

New format.

It's only for this year.

if its only for this year whats the point?

its kind of ruins the homefield advantage IMO.

and travel is a weak arse excuse with how much money these teams make

leave it to MLB to frick something up

It's been 2-3 format before, and the playoffs went just fine. There's actually a lot of pressure on the team with the first two games at home to win them both, or else at the very best they'll probably have to play a winner-take-all Game 5 on the road.

I know people will say that there's that same pressure on that team to win Games 3 and 4 under the 2-2-1 format, but in that case it's usually against the other team's 3rd and 4th starter. For the wildcard winner this year, under the 2-3 format, they'll have to win both games against the 1st and 2nd starter, while their own ace probably isn't available because he likely pitched the wildcard playoff.

I'm not saying I don't like 2-2-1 better, but it's all just something to think about.

And Major League Baseball has screwed things up much worse before in the LDS. Who remembers the awful format from 1995-1997? If you don't, look it up.