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***2016 MLB Playoff thread: Cubs win for first time since sliced bread hit market (1 Viewer)

Eephus said:
90+ win teams have missed the post-season for over a century.  Some of those pennant races are more memorable than the World Series that followed.

There's a balance between an exciting playoff format and maintaining the integrity of the regular season.
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I don't think people were complaining when the college football playoffs expanded. 

 
tjnc09 said:
Again, you are putting too much weight in regular season wins.  The postseason schedule with days off between games is completely different than the regular season where you can play many games in a row without days off.  The 2014 Kansas City Royals, for example, with Holland, Herrera, and Davis was sick.  The postseason schedule allowed them to maximize those star players whereas you have to caution their usage over a 162 game season.  A system that would exclude a team like that isn't optimal imo. 

It also goes with their opponents and what starting pitchers they see whether they are stars or AAA call ups.
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I would say you're not putting enough weight on regular season wins.  I like that they matter so much in baseball. If I could change one thing I'd make the playoffs resemble the regular season more closely by making the division series a seven games series (with only one day off if possible, same for the LCS) and capping wild card rosters at 22 or 23 players. Postseason contests should resemble regular season contests as much as possible IMO, not disadvantage the superior teams because they run up against an inferior team whose personnel better fits the postseason. 

For example, :homer: alert but I think it's kinda stupid that the 95 win, +151 run differential Nationals are the underdogs vs the 91 win, +87 run differential Dodgers largely because Clayton Kershaw can potentially start 40% of the games in the series instead of the usual 20%.

And if you're going to use this "teams built for the postseason should get in" argument, where do you stop?  The 78 win White Sox would be a force in the postseason because they could start Sale or Quintana almost every game, so how can we leave them out?

 
TobiasFunke said:
 The 78 win White Sox would be a force in the postseason because they could start Sale or Quintana almost every game, so how can we leave them out?
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See, now I'm starting to like tj's idea. I mean we, as fans, are really being deprived by not getting more White Sox baseball.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Tribune headline....


Drake LaRoche to throw out first pitch before Dodgers-Nationals Game 2. Seriously.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-drake-adam-laroche-nationals-20161005-story.html
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FWIW this makes a lot of sense other than the fact that it's an inadvertent middle finger to the White Sox.  Drake was a huge fan favorite when Adam was in DC, probably because he was young enough that the whole thing was just considered cute and not much else. He even had his own sparkling apple cider celebration with 19 year old Bryce Harper when the Nats clinched the division in 2012.

 
Son is still playing baseball.

Is it wrong for me to pull him to get and watch the game?

He is 8 and playing terrible..sifting sand through his glove like a pro though

 
Why doesn't baseball have a 7-game series for the divisional playoffs?  There's a lot of talk about only the top teams making it but there's a much bigger luck factor in a 5-game series.

 
I've completely flip-flopped on the one-game wildcard game. Hated it at first. One-game "series" and baseball just don't make sense. But it's not about the one-game wild card teams. It's about winning your division, and #### the teams that didn't. Couple teams have to submit themselves to this stupid game, so be it. They should've won their division. A little added excitement, and the "wild card birth" of the previous format is pretty much eliminated. You can win from that spot, but it's long road to hoe, as it should be. Each League's top team gets a team that just burned it's top pitcher. Makes sense.

 
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chet said:
Why doesn't baseball have a 7-game series for the divisional playoffs?  There's a lot of talk about only the top teams making it but there's a much bigger luck factor in a 5-game series.
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Why don't they have a nine game series like they did before 1920?  The LCSs were three game series from 1969 to 1985, and now we have five games plus the wildcard.  Teams play 162 games and there isn't a lot of difference between the teams.  Only the Cubs had a winning percentage higher than .600 this year, all the other playoff teams were between .537 and .586 or eight total wins.  Where is all this talk about a much bigger luck factor in a 5-game series? 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Why don't they have a nine game series like they did before 1920?  The LCSs were three game series from 1969 to 1985, and now we have five games plus the wildcard.  Teams play 162 games and there isn't a lot of difference between the teams.  Only the Cubs had a winning percentage higher than .600 this year, all the other playoff teams were between .537 and .586 or eight total wins.  Where is all this talk about a much bigger luck factor in a 5-game series? 
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This is why I have been advocating for a 256-game series for years, so we can finally determine these winners to a degree of statistical significance, thus ending our long national nightmare once and for all.

 
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