Well there’s the gap between baseball fans and not. Baseball fans all seem to do the math in their head and “subtract” the assume 1/3 losses. People who aren’t don’t. From my view if you’re going to assume 53 losses a year play 53 fewer games.
I don’t think baseball really did determine the best in each league. With a season that long, with trades, acquisitions and losses throughout the season, who really knows who’s best. Look at Tampa, they started the season with that record win streak, but nobody believed they were the best, and by the end of the season nobody was even talking about them.
You want more exciting games, play fewer. The entire lose 1/3 model innately devalues 1/3 of the games. Right off the bat the entire model assumes 1/3 of the games are completely meaningless.
“ Look at Tampa, they started the season with that record win streak, but nobody believed they were the best, and by the end of the season nobody was even talking about them.”
Once again you make my point.