2024 MLB Playoff Pool

[Surgnbuck]

Our favorite former Pirate with a WS ring is going for ring #2 with the Guardians. Yep, Austin Hedges is starting tonight's game for the Guardians.

I can practically read you typing, "Does Vogt have his head up his arse starting Hedges?"

[Doc]

Tigers, with a three-run Kerry Carpenter HR in the 9th, beat Cleveland 3-0 to tie the series at one game apiece.

[bucs607179]

Get em Tigers!!

[bucs607179]

KC Royals are a good example of how MLB is all about money. They spent some after the terrible 2023 season and now they are 1 win away from the ALCS.

Pittsburgh Pirate fans will never have experience this with our current owner.

[Surgnbuck]

KC Royals are a good example of how MLB is all about money. They spent some after the terrible 2023 season and now they are 1 win away from the ALCS.

Pittsburgh Pirate fans will never have experience this with our current owner.

They're two wins away.

[Surgnbuck]

Tigers, with a three-run Kerry Carpenter HR in the 9th, beat Cleveland 3-0 to tie the series at one game apiece.

Last guy to hit a HR off Clase was Cutch on August 30th

[bucs607179]

KC Royals are a good example of how MLB is all about money. They spent some after the terrible 2023 season and now they are 1 win away from the ALCS.

Pittsburgh Pirate fans will never have experience this with our current owner.

They're two wins away.

Oops! Best of 5.

[Surgnbuck]

All LDS are tied at 1-1.

If they were to retain the same number of playoff teams, here is how I would handle the post season:

3 division winners, ranked 1-2-3 in seeding
3 Wild cards, ranked in seeding 4-5-6

6 would play at 5 for a one game playoff, ala the 2 wild card format.
Winner of that game plays the next night at WC4 for a best of three, all at WC4 house, all in successive days.

Winner of that round plays at Division seed 1 best of 5, all at Division 1 home. 2/off day/2/off day/1 format
Division 3 plays at Division 2 for best of 5. Traditional format 2-2-1 with Division 2 start the series at home, and have game 5 at home.

LCS series play traditional 2-3-2 format with best remaining seed having home field advantage.

WS play traditional 2-3-2 format with best record having home field, however a WC team will only have home field playing another WC team, with best record being home team regardless of where their seed was in their league playoffs. A division winner will always have home field advantage against a WC team, regardless of records.

It keeps the excitement of expanded playoff field for fans to at least have a glimmer of hope for their team, as it does now, keeping more teams in playoff contention.

It rewards the team with the best division record immensely, especially to reach the LCS. It makes it very difficult for a WC team to make the LCS, but if they do, they are rewarded with at least being in a traditional format the rest of the way. It rewards the other 2 division winners for getting the home field for the number 2 seed, but it also rewards both teams for winning the division by automatically making the LDS, and not having to play a best of three WC round, as the current number 3 division winner must have to do. It allows both teams to set their rotations and give baseball fans in general the best possible product.

I feel the format right now is unfair to one of the division winners. I also feel that the number 1 seed, the best team all season in the league, should have a little extra advantage in the first round over the division winner with the second best record, as right now both get byes into the LDS.

What all do you guys think?

[Doc]

I like it because it gives teams an incentive to win as much as possible. And fans don’t have to watch games toward the end of the regular season, after teams have clinched, with line-ups comprised of bench players and minor leaguers.

[Doc]

Mets up on Philly 6-0 in the 8th. Before I’m done typing, the Phils inch closer with a pair of runs. Now 6-2 with the Mets now batting.