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New Major League Baseball Playoff structure (OT?)

Posted By: Gregg Cattanach
Date: Thursday, 8 March 2012, at 4:03 p.m.

In Response To: New Major League Baseball Playoff structure (OT?) (Steve Mellen)

I have no idea how often this happens, but it certainly is possible that the wild-card team has a better record than one of the division winners. (It's happened a lot in the NFL). Having to be best of some arbitrary 5-team (4? 6?) group shouldn't be the only criteria to getting into the playoffs. So I fully support having a wild-card team in MLB.

But I think the 1 extra game between 4 and 5 is dumb. Having a single baseball game determine something like this is too arbitrary. There's too much variance in a single baseball game to determine which team is 'better'. Hell, they have to play 162 games to see who is best in a division.

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