MLB To Add More Playoff Teams

[Hubs]

I like it. 

The key to playoff ratings being higher and Keeping the postseason short is to play concurrent or overlapping games. 

Season ends on Saturday afternoon. Sunday is for any playoff games. Sunday night is the reality tv show where they pick their opponents.

Tuesday-Friday all four Wild Card Series are played. Two start on Tuesday, Two on Wednesday. Three games in three days.

Saturday Division Series Start in NL (Tuesday starts) and Sunday they start in AL series. they finish following Monday. 7 games in 9 days 
 
Wednesday night the AL and NL CS start. 7 games in 9 days. 

World Series starts following Friday night. 

is over by Following Saturday. 7 games in 9 days. 

And I’d move it up if both teams finish in less than 7 so that they only get one day off. 

[m0nkey]

Can't say I disagree

[m0nkey]

Just now, m0nkey said:

Can't say I disagree

"Bruin"

[Claude]

I hate it. They already added a wild card team and they should’ve never done that. 

Edited February 11, 2020 by RendZone

[GregAlso]

I don’t get all the vitriol and frustration at Manfred. I understand nobody likes change and this does diminish the regular season. But it also goes a fair distance in fixing one of the players (and frankly fans) grievances, tanking teams.
 

Teams tank because they don’t see a realistic shot at a playoff spot. More teams in the playoffs means less tanking teams, and not just two each league, but 3-4 more who believe they have a legit shot at making it.
 

It also turns the 1 game playoff into a three game, which fixes the grievance everyone has had about the one game playoff. It gives one team a bye in this 3 game wild card round so that winning the league means something. That feels more like the pre-LCS era. The other division winners have home field through the first round so they have some advantages. 
 

Other than it being foreign and people don’t like change I can see a lot of reasonable things about the proposal. It doesn’t seem completely absurd as some are saying. I mean the wild card round is only 8 years old and the division rounds is 25 years old in current iterations. That isn’t some long history in my mind. Just not worth getting worked up about. 

[ukyah]

2 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Can't say I disagree

 

if you ever needed concrete proof of the absolute strength of the mlbpa.

[Tank]

Can’t say I love this suggestion, but I also don’t hate it. 
 

I’d feel better about this if they shortened the season by a week or two so the playoffs don’t run into November.

[Claude]

They need to keep playoff format the same for the qualifying teams and establish a consolation NIT type tournament for all of the losers. But everyone gets a trophy. 

[fan_since79]

5 hours ago, bloodbrother said:

This is that "for the love of god, find a way to get Mike Trout into the playoffs by any means" rule

It's also perhaps the only way I'll see the team in the postseason before I'm 90, so I'm all for it.

[arch stanton]

Note to MLB- Stupid gimmicks should always include gratuitous nudity otherwise what's the point?

[vladdy#27]

Haven't read the thread, but I get why they would want more teams in the playoffs. If you're a casual fan you're more likely to watch the playoffs if your team is in it. Having division winners playing a 3 game series is dumb, but I wouldn't be against more teams making the playoffs. 

If more teams are added to the playoffs I would add 1 more, so a total of 3 wildcard teams. If you win your division you advance to the ALDS/NLDS (increase the DS to 7 games). Wildcards 2 and 3 play each other one time the day after the final regular season game. The winner of 2/3 plays the wild card team with the best record one time the next day. From there they can have the team with the best record choose who they want to play. In order to avoid playing into the middle of November I would get rid of the of some of the off days forcing teams to use 4 or 5 starters instead of 3 or 4.

In this scenario there would be 12 playoff teams

[Docwaukee]

Bauer would make a great Angelswin poster.  It would almost be worth it to sign him just for the fact that I think he'd come here and argue with us.  

[Lou]

7 hours ago, arch stanton said:

Note to MLB- Stupid gimmicks should always include gratuitous nudity otherwise what's the point?

[Claude]

The new playoff format should be fun. Can’t wait until the #2 seed picks to play us for like 10 years in a row.

[arch stanton]

I said gratuitous not grotesquetous

[Lou]

Just now, arch stanton said:

I said gratuitous not grotesquetous

Sorry, it's early. I haven't had my Dunkies 

[zenmaster]

No thanks. This is just weird. 

[Lou]

15 minutes ago, zenmaster said:

No thanks. This is just weird. 

If by weird you mean f'n stupid . . .

I agree 

[Stradling]

We can all agree it’s dumb.  However when teams start to pick who they play and then the lower seed beats them, that will be great for AngelsWin and narratives and trash talk and butthurt and all that nonsense.  

[Claude]

5 minutes ago, Stradling said:

We can all agree it’s dumb.  However when teams start to pick who they play and then the lower seed beats them, that will be great for AngelsWin and narratives and trash talk and butthurt and all that nonsense.  

It’s just a stupid concept. When the 2nd seeded team selects their opponent and then stomps them like a bug, that’s demoralizing. They need to leave it alone. We already have enough playoff teams in place now. 

[Stradling]

Just now, RendZone said:

It’s just a stupid concept. When the 2nd seeded team selects their opponent and then stomps them like a bug, that’s demoralizing. They need to leave it alone. We already have enough playoff teams in place now. 

I agree we have enough playoff teams.  However the rest is nonsense.  Wild Card teams have won the World Series. A team barely above .500 won the World Series.   It’s baseball and lesser teams beat great teams all the damn time. In 2014 the Angels has the best record, they would have chosen the Royals and the Royals swept them and went to game 7 of the World Series.  

[floplag]

This is a terrible horrible idea in my view.
The only change that needs to be made is the WC game being made a 3 game series.

[Stradling]

What needs to change is the length of the season, we can decide who the best teams are in 154 games.  Then add the Wild Card Best of 5 played over 5 consecutive days starting the Tuesday after the season ends.  If by chance there is a rain out, play a double header.  Regular playoff start Monday the week after the regular season.  If you won your division you get to line up your pitching against the Wild Card team.  

[Stradling]

Just now, RBM said:

I like it more now than when I first read about it yesterday.

Baseball is a tournament sport and this has a tournament feel to it.

With this format Mike Trout's Angels would have four playoff appearances instead of one. What's not to like about that.

Is that how others feel about it?  I certainly don’t.  It’s a season long grind of 162 games that ends in playoffs.  

[Lou]

I'd be fine with a season of about 140 games.