It gets a bye through the first round. On the night after the final day of regular-season games, a selection show is held in which the No. Last year, for instance, the Dodgers would announce they would choose to play the winner of Braves-Marlins, Cubs-Cardinals or Padres-Reds.
TV networks already have expressed interest in bidding on a selection show. It also allows what is a must-have in sports these days: office brackets. Winners advance to the best-of-seven LCS. Those winners advance to best-of-seven World Series. World Series is held at a neutral site every third year.
Best record earns a big premium. Winning a division—and being a great second-place team that happens to be in the wrong division i. Jockeying for seeds matters, which injects intrigue into September.
More players get the chance to play postseason baseball. More teams chase the carrot of a playoff spot, though the added incentive is there to build one that stays out of the all-round first-round matchup. My ideal playoff format would be for it to stay just as it has been since the second wild-card spot was added—but even though it looks like an expanded playoff won't be featured this year, it now seems all but inevitable that it'll happen at some point, perhaps after the renegotiation of the CBA.
If that happens, then, I have one change I'd like to see made to the expanded field that we had in Let the wild-card round be one game instead of a best-of-three. The three-game series felt like a weird no man's land between the excitement of a single game and the strategic arc of a best-of-five. A single game starts the playoffs with a bang and jumps into the serious action more quickly. Is it a perfectly fair way to judge which team is actually better?
But neither is a best-of-three! This way, at least, is more fun. I love the idea of a selection show, as Tom outlined above. The only way that's viable is with a team playoff seven seeded teams per league , in which the top seeds get a bye and seeds No.
The wrinkle I would add to the so-called "wild-card round" which, uh, includes division winners is to make it a two-game series. How does that happen? Game 1 is an elimination game. If the higher better seed wins Game 1 or 2, the series is over. In the World Series , the two League winners one from the American League and the other from the National League battle it out for the Major League Baseball championship in a best-of-seven series. These are the teams who have made it to the MLB playoffs and this is how they'll play:.
Houston Astros. San Francisco Giants 2: Atlanta Braves vs. Milwaukee Brewers. Registering implies accepting the Terms and Conditions. What will be the MLB playoffs format? In each league, the winner of each of the three divisions qualifies for the playoffs, making up six of the 10 teams in the postseason.
Meanwhile, the two teams with the best records among non-division winners from each league earn a Wild Card spot, making up the last four playoff spots available. Being a Wild Card team in the MLB playoffs means you got into the playoffs despite not winning your division. In , MLB expanded to three divisions in each league, meaning that a fourth team was needed for the playoffs in order to create an even number of teams in each league.
From to , the best non-division-winner in each league was the only Wild Card from each league. However, the format changed in , creating a second Wild Card team. This was done to keep more teams in the playoff race deep into the season. As it stands, the three division winners get a pass to the Divisional Round of the MLB playoffs while the two Wild Card teams from each league play each other in a one-game, winner-take-all playoff for the right to advance to the Divisional Round.
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