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MLB Proposes New Playoff System Where Best Record Teams Pick Their Opponents

by Larry Leo

February 11, 202019 Comments

The MLB is looking to make some crazy changes to their postseason come 2022, but those changes very intriguing. The idea is more playoff openings drives greater fan interest. Per New York Post...

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Imagine a team picking its playoff opponent. Think about Brian Cashman and the Yankees deciding whether to face the Red Sox or avoid them in the first round of the postseason. All on live TV.

Well, it is probably coming soon to the major leagues.

MLB is seriously weighing a move from five to seven playoff teams in each league beginning in 2022, The Post has learned.

In this concept, the team with the best record in each league would receive a bye to avoid the wild-card round and go directly to the Division Series. The two other division winners and the wild card with the next best record would each host all three games in a best-of-three wild-card round. So the bottom three wild cards would have no first-round home games.

Are you liking this idea? The whole article is a good read...

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southernboisb•63 months

WHY play the games if you're post season is NOT determined by your results?

southernboisb•63 months

you're = your

pellietigersaint•63 months

just shows how far baseball is behind the NFL and NBA. they play waaay too many games for the casual fan to care from day to day. This is a good start. Cut the season by at least 40-60 games, and add more teams to the post-season. why would anyone care about a pirates and reds game when it is 1 game out of 160??

atltiger6487•63 months

exactly - 162 games is absurd. Each one is basically meaningless. Chop it in half, cut the season in half and get the playoff done in August or early September, before football gets really going. Because once football starts, nobody cares about baseball.

ByUselves•63 months

I bet the players would love the pay cut. And I'm sure the owners want less revenue/yr, too. But, for the fans, I'm sure they are willing to take a pay cut!

BlackPot•63 months

ByUselves Don't think they'll lose much money. No one is showing up to a Tuesday 1:00 game. The stadium is probably losing money on those days.

Black n Gold•63 months

Not a MLB fan, but I like it. The reward for having the best record after 162 games should be substantial.

C•63 months

The point of watching the game isn’t necessarily to see who will make the playoffs. You should watch the game to just enjoy the moment and in that moment. Worrying about annual stats and records takes away from that.

Albino Potato•63 months

Sounded strange at first but I like rewarding whoever has the best record.

Goombaw•63 months

As I've grown older I've become more of a baseball fan. I actually enjoy the pace, the commentary (most of the time), and the strategy. That being said, the playoff is not MLB's problem in drawing new fans, it's the regular season. It's so long that a lot of people have trouble really getting into it, unless they just love stats.

atltiger6487•63 months

"As I've grown older, ... I actually enjoy the pace.." Why? So you can nap and not miss anything? Baseball is WAAAYYY too slow and boring, that's why it's fading and the MLB leaders are trying to speed it up and spice it up. I applaud them for trying, but they're going to need to do much more.

Goombaw•63 months

No, I just enjoy turning on the game while I do other things. With football you have to watch every second or you could miss something but with baseball you can casually watch it while talking, browsing the internet, working on something, etc... I like that.

atltiger6487•63 months

No, I just enjoy turning on the game while I do other things. "With football you have to watch every second or you could miss something but with baseball you can casually watch it while talking, browsing the internet, working on something, etc... I like that".... exactly, you just made my point. There's very actual action in baseball, and there are long lulls. I agree, it's fine to have on TV in the background, but that's not a good recipe for building new young fan support.

FredBear•63 months

If they keep on adding playoff games they are going to be playing baseball all the way up to Thanksgiving. They need to shorten the season, not add to it.

atltiger6487•63 months

agreed -- 162 games far, far, far too many. Each game is basically meaningless, and spring training starts in February and the World Series ends in late October.

jgoodw318•63 months

No this is STUPID!

gamecockman12•63 months

I like the current format of the MLB post-season to be honest.

chinhoyang•63 months

Sounds stupid

atltiger6487•63 months

MLB is trying to save the game. The fans of baseball skew older, and young folks are tuning out and not playing the game. It's too slow with far too little offense, and way too many games. They've been tweaking around the edges, but baseball needs a complete makeover if it wants to remain relevant.