It’s only 1/10 of the season. Baseball is the only sport where people insist that a team that’s a 10% better record is drastically better.
Yes. Traditional baseball.
Over longer periods, differences become for significant.
It was called the National pastime.
Tournament competition makes sense for other sports to determine the best.
Every team has hot streaks.
Baseball reflected the worth ethic of consistency and long term effort and slow and steady wins the race.
What we have now is deciding who won the marathon by have a sprint of the top 40% of finishers after the marathon.