Current Playoff Expansion Accomplishes Very Little
Filed in Pirates on February 29, 2012 with no comments
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Major League Baseball is closing in on an expansion to the playoff system that will add two extra teams to the post-season. The new teams will be added in the form of a play-in game: a one game, winner-takes-all contest between two wild card teams, with the winner advancing to the Divisional Series.
The idea of adding playoff teams is a good strategy for baseball, but it’s not enough.
This doesn’t really change the playoffs to a great degree. What it does is reduces the chances that the Wild Card teams have. Previously if you were the best team who …
