Eliminate divisions, balance the schedule, top 6 teams from each league go to the playoffs, top 2 go to the "divisional round", remaining 4 play in a 3 game series.
Eliminate the bullshit of having teams like the Tigers play in a shit division make it to the playoffs with the 7th best record in their league.
Or situations like the Pirates having to face a couple Cy Young pitchers in a 1 game playoff. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
Eliminate divisions, balance the schedule, top 6 teams from each league go to the playoffs, top 2 go to the "divisional round", remaining 4 play in a 3 game series.
Eliminate the bullshit of having teams like the Tigers play in a shit division make it to the playoffs with the 7th best record in their league.
Or situations like the Pirates having to face a couple Cy Young pitchers in a 1 game playoff.
I don't think divisions should be eliminated, but playoff selection should be based solely on record. So you won a shit division but six other teams had better records? You get a division champion shirt and a participation trophy and October off while the actual good teams play.
Originally Posted by Frazod:
I don't think divisions should be eliminated, but playoff selection should be based solely on record. So you won a shit division but six other teams had better records? You get a division champion shirt and a participation trophy and October off while the actual good teams play.
Should be that way in football, too.
You still run into issues with unblanced schedules.
Sure you could still balance the schedule with divisions but you'll only play any individual team in your division at most 10 times a season so what's the point in keeping divisions in that scenario.
I don't think eliminating divisions would kill rivalries because most rivalries are regional in the first place. Like Cubs and Cardinals is a rivalry because fanbases territory meets in the middle. But I don't consider the Reds or Pirates a rival even though they are in the same division because they are so far away from the division geographically. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Mo is not going anywhere. What is with you and an obsession with getting rid of one guy, Pham’s gone, that’s your yearly quota.
3 years no playoffs. Old fucks he acquired blew the season. Way too many holes on this team..buh bye [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
You still run into issues with unblanced schedules.
Sure you could still balance the schedule with divisions but you'll only play any individual team in your division at most 10 times a season so what's the point in keeping divisions in that scenario.
I don't think eliminating divisions would kill rivalries because most rivalries are regional in the first place. Like Cubs and Cardinals is a rivalry because fanbases territory meets in the middle. But I don't consider the Reds or Pirates a rival even though they are in the same division because they are so far away from the division geographically.
It is 297 miles from Chicago to St. Louis
It is 294 from Chicago to Cincinnati [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
It is 297 miles from Chicago to St. Louis
It is 294 from Chicago to Cincinnati
And?
The Cards and Cubs split the same state in which the Cubs are in and the Cards play on the border. The Brewers are 30 mins north.
There's an entire state that separates the Reds from the closest team to the west.
I'm right smack dab in the middle of Cubs-Cards country and it's about 90 mins to St. Louis and about 2 1/2 hours to Chicago. Its 5 hours to Cincinatti. [Reply]
