Home field advantage

[murph3]

What do we have to do to get home field for the playoffs?

[nsacpi]

trade for andruw

[drewdat]

Some combination of 4 Braves wins/Cardinals losses and 3 Braves wins/Dodgers losses will get it through the NLCS. WS is AL because of the all-star game.

I guess Pittsburgh and Cincy are still mathematically capable. 2 Braves wins/Pirates losses and 1 Braves win/Reds loss, assuming we have those tiebreakers also.

Basically 3 wins should do it barring STL running the table, 2 might still be OK.

[murph3]

trade for andruw

We trade for Druw and we will roll off 11 straight wins in the post-season. Just go ahead and give us the trophy.

[weso1]

The Braves could hire Druw as an assistant hitting coach. He could finally teach our hitters how to properly smile during their AB's.

[KayJayNZ]

Get the 1st seed and play the WC in a 5 game series or be passed by the Cardinals and play the Dodgers in a 5 game series.

Easy to see what is more preferable. Just win.

[Dalyn]

Relevant article.

[stpeteirish]

What do we have to do to get home field for the playoffs?

magic # is 3 vs the Dodgers 3 Braves wins or Dodgers losses will give us home field vs them. # is 4 vs the Cards. Four wins or Cards losses give us #1 seed, home field vs rest of NL and first round vs wild card.

[Enscheff]

Is all of this taking into account any tiebreakers between the Braves and other teams?

[drewdat]

For Cards and Dodgers, yes. Not sure on Pirates and Reds (who play each other and are thus unlikely to factor in).

Bowman just did an article.

[CyYoung31]

I'd rather not have homefield.

Decisive Homefield Advantage Games have not been too kind to us.

See: 2012, 2004,2003,2002.

That luck is bound to change.

[Heyward]

I'd still prefer to have home field.

But with how bad this offense is right now, I'm not sure that happens unfortunately.

[CyYoung31]

I think we take 3 of 4 from the Phillies. That should be enough.

[Heyward]

I think we take 3 of 4 from the Phillies. That should be enough.

Over LA, sure, need to win all 4 to take it over Stl.

Cubs ain't beating them.

[CyYoung31]

Over LA, sure, need to win all 4 to take it over Stl.

Cubs ain't beating them.

I bet they don't sweep the Cubs.

[Bdawg2309]

Over LA, sure, need to win all 4 to take it over Stl.

Cubs ain't beating them.

august 19-22 vs the nats was the last time the cubs got swept.

[Heyward]

august 19-22 vs the nats was the last time the cubs got swept.

Nats didn't sweep them, they won 3 of 4.

[tululush]

I say the Cards take 2 of 3 from the Cubs. We just need to take 3 of 4 and we'll be fine. Win tonight and keep your loss in your back pocket for one of the weekend games. Friday may be the game we lose with Lee pitching so we better win tonight.

Nats didn't sweep them, they won 3 of 4.

[NYCBrave]

Over LA, sure, need to win all 4 to take it over Stl.

Cubs ain't beating them.

The Cardinals are 9-7 vs the Cubs this year. It's not like they've had the easiest time with them.

[benchguy]

and the Braves are 8 and 7 against the Phils, not like they have had an easy time either..

The Cardinals are 9-7 vs the Cubs this year. It's not like they've had the easiest time with them.