6 days it just way too many days off in baseball. This is not football where a bye week is beneficial to heal and prepare for your next opponent. Baseball is a marathon and teams are used to playing almost every day for the previous 6 months. A 6 day layoff is very excessive.
Double headers are not happening but something needs to change. Maybe if the WC teams wins in 2 games, they re-do the schedule. Gives them a big advantage with all these off days and not the top seeded teams.
Yeah they have to do something to fix this bye-break. It's real.
WC teams have better footing as they haven't had a week long layoff to get rusty. They've had exciting games along with the perfect amount of rest to be ready for the division series. The evidence over the last two years is that you're better off not being one of the top 2 teams in your league.
All 6 playoff teams play 3 games vs every team thats 15 total games. Team with the best record makes it to the world series.
The reality is that playoffs have always been an awkward fit for baseball, a sport defined by large sample sizes and something akin to randomness on a game-to-game basis. You can either go back to the pre-division days, when 50 was in his prime, and just send the NL and AL champs straight to the World Series, or you can accept that the postseason tournament will often produce weird results that don't align with actual team quality.
It's always going to be a crapshoot. I like the round-robin idea though. Something akin to the College World Series.
I never post but will on this subject.
7 games NLDS
Sat Sun off
Tue Wed Thursday off Sat Sun if necessary
Make it work. The most unfair thing right now besides seeds is one day on one day off. That’s horrible.
Last edited by sc1767; 10-13-2023 at 11:47 PM.
The problem with the playoffs is all the days off. Makes it a different game. DS should be 5 games in a row. Maybe have a day off in a 7 game series.
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Another idea based off a suggestion heard on one of the Battery Power podcasts:
•Each Wild Card series becomes a max of two games (Tuesday and Wednesday assuming the season ends Sunday). The lower seed has to win two in a row to advance, the higher seed only has to win once.
•Reseed after the Wild Card. LDS starts Thursday and is either best of seven or the higher seed gets to host all five games.
Garmel (10-12-2023)
Teams with a bye have won 4 division series games.
Teams without a bye have won 9 division series games.
Seems like there might be a problem.
Mrs. Meta (10-12-2023)
I guess every bye teams need to invest in metal trash cans.
Coppy
striker42 (10-12-2023)
Three teams won 100 games this year, the Braves, the O's, and the Dodgers. They're a combined 1-8.
First time long time.
Expand to 32 teams. Four division winners and four wildcards per league. Each division winner places a wild card. Division winners get a 1-0 advantage. Winning your division matters. Loser mid teams still get a "shot," which MLB seems obsessed with giving them for some reason. If they overcome the handicap, no one can complain that they haven't earned it.
Will hang up and listen to your response off the air. I assume we all agree this is the perfect solution.
50PoundHead (10-13-2023)