To me it is just one of those things. From memory, it didn't happen so starkly last year, the division winners had the better records anyway, with the exception your Dbacks won a game more as a WC than the NL Central winning Cubs.brothernero wrote:Back to the top for this forgotten thread.
Well the Yankees are in the post season but sadly my team has had an unprecedented total collapse.
We went from 15 games over in late late August and 1st place to now just 2 games over and trying to somehow see if we can make it to mount .500. To be polite about it, we ****ing quit and just gave up when the going got tough. Something rotten has happened inside the club house and no one really knows what.
Now talking of the Yankees, what do you think about the fact that they could win 100 games this year and yet will face a 1 game wild card decider v Oakland, who themselves could win close to 100 games. Yet the Cleveland Indians won their division some time ago but are still yet to even win 90 games. No wild card for them, they go straight to the ALDS with home field advantage.
Is that fair, or is it just one of those things.
To pad that out somewhat, Tampa Bay and Seattle could end the year with more wins than the Indians yet both those clubs have already been eliminated.
Again, fair, or just tough luck.
This was discussed during one of the games the other day and I for one agree with the guy in the booth doing the commentary (Don't recall his name)
He said that how he would change things is to still keep Geographic Scheduling but instead of having 3 individual Divisions in each of the AL and NL leagues, he would instead make it just one whole League in both.
So as it would then stand 15 teams in the AL and 15 in the NL. (IE Just 1 league in each)
The top 3 teams go straight to the post-season with home field advantage. The two teams who finish 5th and 6th play a 1 game play-off. 5th place with home field Adv. The winner of that then plays the team who finished 4th (4th place team also with with Home field Adv) with the the winner going onto the ALDS and NLDS.
I have to agree with him and do think that seems a much fairer way. It would also keep the season alive much longer for several teams making things more exciting in the last month and then days.
Because he is right when he says at present the 6 divisions are extremely flawed and not very fair.
A few others have also claimed this.
It happens in the NFL when on a rare occasion you get a 9-7 division winner getting in and a 10-6 team missing out. But on the whole it tends to work out pretty fair. I think many would have enjoyed the year the filthy Patriots went 11-5 and missed the postseason.
As for the WC, agree the 1 game sudden death game is not great reward for a 162 game season. Best of 3 at least would seem better.