Three Division winners and best remaining record as the Wild Card
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It was just 2 teams before they decided to make it a 3 division league
And more unfair. That's what I'm saying: Cubs should be in the Division Series already. Colorado has like 5 won games less and could go through with one good game over Cubs. I do agree this is more exciting but it's not fair. The already long as shit season is given less importance to its individual games with this.
Final Boss is a filthy pitcher, he deserves more credit (and money) than he's gotten.
Plz Mets.
Plz Mets.
A month long playoff after 162 games of regular season is inherently unfair.
Under the old system the Cubs 11-8 record against the Brewers would have given them the division.
Such is life.
Eh, everyone knows the score. You try to win your division. You don't try to be a wild card team.
Cubs would have won their division in any other sport due to better head to head record in the regular season. Game 163 is a dumb relic.
Yes Cubs would have advanced in the old model. They introduced the extra wild card play-in game as a way to have an extra playoff team (and fanbase), and an extra playoff game (and ratings) even if it's only for a day.
Before the wild card I believe there were only two divisions in each league so the two regular season winners would automatically advance to the LCS, there were no division series. The led to the 1993, SF Giants winning 103 games and missing the playoffs because they didn't win their division. In 1994 the league realigned to 3 divisions in each league, and introduced one wild card team in each league.
And yet you had the chance to win yesterday and didn't. Tough. Should have won, Maddon should have managed better.
Hell if we didn't introduce the new system a situation like 3 years ago where the NL Central had three teams at 98-100 wins and one of them wouldn't even make the playoffs. Instead the two teams that didn't win the division got to play in the WC round.
I completely forgot about that too.
Either pick having game 163 while ignoring head to head records orbhave a wild card game. You can't have both.
While they're at it why not reduce the amount of games? 162 games in 6 months is ridiculous.
It'a actually the Brewers would be the wild card since the Cubs had the head to head the would take the division as they wouldn't play a game 163 the old way.
People whining about things being "unfair" with playoff baseball? Where you been since forever? Play better in the first 162 or 163 and you're not in this "unfair" position.
Yup. It's not a perfect system, but it likely never will be, but it's still a lot better (and more exciting) that what we've had in the past. Playoffs are like the best thing about Baseball. Expanding that to a reasonable extent is a good thing. And baseball is also very regional, so introducing extra playoff spots that could expand the audience to places like Colorado or Oakland, is a good thing for a sport that is so often northeast-centric
Yep, the WC game has been nothing but a net positive for the game and the league. The Rockies and DBacks have drawn much better crowds since the system was instituted because they have made the playoffs recently through the system. There is no way to make it perfect. Maybe you can make the WC round a best 2/3 but then the playoffs stretch into the middle of November and nobody wants that.
This is probably as good as the system can be.
Yes there would have been two NLDS, between the dodgers, Cubs, brewers and braves.
Except when one division is significantly better or worse than the others. Balanced schedules please.
