[dfwgator]

Sorry for those who feel that way. To me it means that low-budget teams can get hot and take out those high-salaried boys who think they can field the best team money can buy.

I wonder if they made the Divisional Series Best-of-Seven rather than Best-Of-Five if that might cut down on the lower teams taking down the higher teams?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I wonder if they made the Divisional Series Best-of-Seven rather than Best-Of-Five if that might cut down on the lower teams taking down the higher teams?

Team owners proposed this, along with other playoff ideas, at the CBA negotiations last year, but the players' union rejected it. Players don't want playoffs extending into mid-November.

[Dr. Sivana]

I wonder if they made the Divisional Series Best-of-Seven rather than Best-Of-Five if that might cut down on the lower teams taking down the higher teams?

The Diamondbacks won three series in a row without a break, and beat the two top teams in both Best of Five AND Best of Seven.

If you want to do it right, four divisions (or two more leagues, either way). . . have REAL pennant races where all 162 games likely mean something. This isn't foorball with a 17 game season. You should be able to beat a bracket of 7 or 8 teams over 162 games if you want a shot at the World Series. If there were still 16 teams, I'd say no playoffs at all.

I have a more complicated solution involving team demotion and geographical/number limits on trades, and elimination of the DH and Interleague Play. But those are just pipe dreams. I don't even have a team anymore.

[canuck_conservative]

the bye has to be eliminated

you can’t have baseball teams, used to playing almost every day for 6 months, just sit around for a week going stone-cold

a week-long bye works in football, they’re used to playing once a week, but it doesn’t work in baseball

[discostu]

Probably not. The biggest problem baseball has is the length of the season. Between the general expectation of every team losing 1/3 of the games, and how much the personnel of team can change over the season, higher ranked teams can easily be there because of May and June performance and not be nearly as good as the record says by October. Meanwhile a team like the D-Backs can basically reinvent themselves at the trade deadline and be a significantly better team by the end of September than their record says.