Matt Swartz at the Hardball Times suggests two fixes to the new MLB playoff proposal. His focus is on not only adding playoff teams, but increasing the value of a regular season win toward appearing in the World Series.

The Players Association should prefer my scenario for two main reasons: (1) Higher marginal impact of a win on potential playoff revenue increases team incentives to pay for free agents, (2) More teams have potential value to adding wins, increasing the competition for teams to pay up to that value.

The owners should like my scenario as well: (1) More meaningful regular-season games for more teams will increase ticket sales, (2) More playoff games lead to higher revenue, and (3) All seeds have the potential for a home game prior to the World Series, and in fact the underdogs have the potential to get a Game One home game and all the associated pomp and circumstance contained within.

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We should like this because there are no gimmicks.