Major League Baseball is trying to kill the massive tie scenario:
According to a source with Major League Baseball, the proposals being developed to add two wild-card teams to the playoffs include provisions to use an NFL-style tie-breaker system based around head-to-head play to send teams into the playoffs when two or more teams tie for division titles and wild-card spots.
So if three or more teams tie for the wild card or division, ranking is determined by records, not a playoff game.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
One game playoffs are great. They generate attention, and they’re often great games. Please don’t’ do this!
I’m surprised they’re looking at killing off a potential source of revenue.
Ugh… adding a second wild card is a terrible idea. The playoffs are great right now. Why should the Yankees or Rays have had to play to the Red Sox to kick off this postseason? The first wild card typically ensures one of the top 2 or 3 teams makes the field; a second wild card is often going to be the 5th best team. And aren’t the playoffs effing long enough already? It’s October 12, and we have yet to decide the first round!
I agree that one game playoffs are fun but they really aren’t the best way to break a tie. In baseball more than any other sport you can’t really judge which is the better team based on one game. Seems to me that using head-to-head records is the fairest way to judge which team should go to the playoffs.
If baseball can screw it up, they will. I cry for the game
As is, the WC is great. Adding anything more is stupid.
If they go to two wild-cards, there will be two one-game playoffs for certain each year, right? This gives incentives to teams like the Yankees and Rays to go for the division at the end of the season instead of virtually laying down.