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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1733003" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>The format is that the two division winners with the best record in each league will get a bye, and everyone else will play a best-of-3 play-in. (Not sure whether they play at both cities in the best of 3)</p><p></p><p>Some of the devil will be in the details, but even in the best case scenario it leaves you with very little to play for over six months and 162 games.</p><p></p><p>Just as a sidebar, I have seen a couple people mention a failure to address tanking, but I think there are a number of little things in the agreement that add up to make it pretty significantly less advantageous to tank. There are other things I would have done, but that's not at the top of my list of complaints.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's an amazing event, and it alone brings in more revenue than the entire rest of the sport. But college basketball is a relatively minor fixture on the sports calendar, certainly much much smaller than baseball and doesn't rely on bringing in big crowds every day all over the country.</p><p></p><p>By the way, college basketball is an interesting example that I think points in the direction of the right tweaks to make the best of this. Because obviously no one can take any meaningful steps toward a national championship during the entire regular season, but they still have conference honors to play for that are independently meaningful.</p><p></p><p>Now that MLB will all be playing under the same rules, and have a playoff system with 4 byes, they should realign to just have 4 regional divisions. Cubs and Sox, Yankees and Mets, Giants and A's.</p><p></p><p>Call them leagues (Midwest League, Eastern League, Western League, Southern League). Make a big deal of it. That's the best you're going to do in terms of providing some juice outside of the inherently random and because of that low-key unsatisfying baseball playoffs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1733003, member: 746137"] The format is that the two division winners with the best record in each league will get a bye, and everyone else will play a best-of-3 play-in. (Not sure whether they play at both cities in the best of 3) Some of the devil will be in the details, but even in the best case scenario it leaves you with very little to play for over six months and 162 games. Just as a sidebar, I have seen a couple people mention a failure to address tanking, but I think there are a number of little things in the agreement that add up to make it pretty significantly less advantageous to tank. There are other things I would have done, but that's not at the top of my list of complaints. It's an amazing event, and it alone brings in more revenue than the entire rest of the sport. But college basketball is a relatively minor fixture on the sports calendar, certainly much much smaller than baseball and doesn't rely on bringing in big crowds every day all over the country. By the way, college basketball is an interesting example that I think points in the direction of the right tweaks to make the best of this. Because obviously no one can take any meaningful steps toward a national championship during the entire regular season, but they still have conference honors to play for that are independently meaningful. Now that MLB will all be playing under the same rules, and have a playoff system with 4 byes, they should realign to just have 4 regional divisions. Cubs and Sox, Yankees and Mets, Giants and A's. Call them leagues (Midwest League, Eastern League, Western League, Southern League). Make a big deal of it. That's the best you're going to do in terms of providing some juice outside of the inherently random and because of that low-key unsatisfying baseball playoffs. [/QUOTE]
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