Men's Baseball MLB 2018

[nenad 443]

Pretty stupid rule that after 162 reg season games you don't have some tibreaker rules and you have to play one additional match just for seeding purposes

[phelps 7,805]

  On 10/2/2018 at 10:54 AM, nenad said:

Pretty stupid rule that after 162 reg season games you don't have some tibreaker rules and you have to play one additional match just for seeding purposes

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no, that's a great rule...this is the best way to create hype to the post-season...

and it's always better to have a real game than using some unfair criteria (considered the fact that all the teams don't play the same number of games against each other during the RS)...

 

as it is for the wild card games...they are highly unfair (a single elimination match after 162/163 RS games), but they are at the same time the most exciting moment of the playoffs (apart from possible games 5/7 in the division/league/world series)...

 

by the way, October to me is one of the most beautiful months of the year...MLB playoffs + NHL start of the season...I just couldn't ask for more (only for what concerns my sports obsession, of course)...

[heywoodu 15,339]

  On 10/2/2018 at 11:23 AM, phelps said:

 

no, that's a great rule...this is the best way to create hype to the post-season...

and it's always better to have a real game than using some unfair criteria (considered the fact that all the teams don't play the same number of games against each other during the RS)...

 

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That is stupid

 

[nenad 443]

  On 10/2/2018 at 11:23 AM, phelps said:

 

no, that's a great rule...this is the best way to create hype to the post-season...

and it's always better to have a real game than using some unfair criteria (considered the fact that all the teams don't play the same number of games against each other during the RS)...

 

as it is for the wild card games...they are highly unfair (a single elimination match after 162/163 RS games), but they are at the same time the most exciting moment of the playoffs (apart from possible games 5/7 in the division/league/world series)...

 

by the way, October to me is one of the most beautiful months of the year...MLB playoffs + NHL start of the season...I just couldn't ask for more (only for what concerns my sports obsession, of course)...

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I disagree, h2h record should decide, I mean they played like 20gms against each other and they need one more.. 

 

Wc gms also, Oakland have to fly all the way to NYC for a single elimination game.. 

[intoronto 5,873]

  On 10/2/2018 at 11:26 AM, heywoodu said:

That is stupid

 

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That's how it is in all of the Big 4 leagues in North America...

[heywoodu 15,339]

  On 10/2/2018 at 2:34 PM, intoronto said:

That's how it is in all of the Big 4 leagues in North America...

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I am aware of that. Doesn't make it any less stupid

[dcro 10,210]

  On 10/2/2018 at 4:12 PM, heywoodu said:

I am aware of that. Doesn't make it any less stupid

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It's really not necessary for everything to be completely equal with 162 games... Same as in chess, where in those 200-player tournaments nobody plays everyone.

[heywoodu 15,339]

  On 10/2/2018 at 4:22 PM, dcro said:

 

It's really not necessary for everything to be completely equal with 162 games... Same as in chess, where in those 200-player tournaments nobody plays everyone.

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So have less games

 

Come on, it can't be that difficult to make sure at least the handful of teams in division X have the same opponents, so they don't need some extra game because they can't break a tie after a ridiculous amount of games.

 

Besides, like @nenad said, Cubs/Brewers and Dodgers/Rockies played each other 20 times this season. Surely there is a possiblity to break a tie there?

Edited October 2, 2018 by heywoodu

[Topicmaster1010 4,489]

Here's a breakdown of all the teams that were playing yesterday with a head to head comparison of their schedules.

 

Team	H2H	ARI	ATL	CIN	COL	LAD	MIA	NYM	PHI	PIT	SD	SF	STL	WSH	CHW	CLE	DET	KCR	MIN	Other
Chicago Cubs	20	7	6	19	6	7	7	7	6	19	7	6	19	7	6	4	4	3	3	0
Milwaukee	20	6	7	19	7	7	7	7	6	19	6	7	19	6	3	4	3	4	6	0

 

The only significant difference is that the Cubs play the Chicago White Sox three more times that Milwaukee while Milwaukee plays Minnesota 3 more times. However, both are teams that weren't close to making the playoffs so they shouldn't affect their record too much. Every other opponent is either the same number of games or give or take one. Let's look at the other matchup.

 

Team	H2H	ARI	ATL	CHC	CIN	MIA	MIL	NYM	PHI	PIT	SD	SF	STL	WSH	HOU	LAA	OAK	SEA	TEX	Other
Colorado	20	19	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	6	19	19	7	7	4	4	3	6	3	0
LA Dodgers	20	19	7	7	7	6	7	6	7	6	19	19	7	6	3	6	4	3	4	0

 

Once again, not so much of a difference between the schedules.

 

I think in this case, having a tie-breaker game is justified. Yes, they could just use head to head records as a tie breaker but it would most surely get criticism from fans of the team who lost the head to head series and other baseball fans. A head to head record would ensure it would be more fair and besides, head to head record was used to determine the home team.

Edited October 2, 2018 by Topicmaster1010

[heywoodu 15,339]

  On 10/2/2018 at 5:28 PM, Topicmaster1010 said:

So I think in this case, having a tie-breaker game is justified. Yes, they could just use head to head records as a tie breaker but it would most surely get criticism from fans of the team who lost the head to head series and other baseball fans. A head to head record would ensure it would be more fair and besides, head to head record was used to determine the home team.

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Which I can imagine would get a lot of criticism from the 'losing' team of course

 

Nobody wants a fair way to decide it if that means it ends up the wrong way for them