A review of historical postseason formats
Pre-1922 formats varied depending on the distance between the cities, I'm using the closest approximations here. The 1921 World Series was a Subway Series with alternating "home field", but the 1920 format would have presumably been used had the Yankees not been involved. The same goes for 1944, which would presumably have used the 1943/45 format.
*1871-1904: One round, best-of-9 (3h 4a 2h) 1905-1917: One round, best-of-7 (2h 2a 1h 1a 1h) 1918: One round, best-of-7 (3a 4h) - World War I 1919-1921: One round, best-of-9 (3h 4a 2h) 1922-1942: One round, best-of-7 (2h 3a 2h) 1943-1945: One round, best-of-7 (3a 4h) - World War II 1946-1968: One round, best-of-7 (2h 3a 2h) 1969-1984: Two rounds, 5/7 (2a 3h/2h 3a 2h) 1985-1993: Two rounds, 7/7 (2h 3a 2h/2h 3a 2h) 1994-1997: Three rounds, 5/7/7 (2a 3h/2h 3a 2h/2h 3a 2h) 1998-2011: Three rounds, 5/7/7 (2h 2a 1h/2h 3a 2h/2h 3a 2h) 2012: Four rounds, 1/5/7/7 (1/2a 3h/2h 3a 2h/2h 3a 2h) 2013-present: Four rounds, 1/5/7/7 (1/2h 2a 1h/2h 3a 2h/2h 3a 2h) *Used only in 1903 IRL, no World Series in 1904. Since nineteenth century WS formats were so varied, the 1903 format should probably be used. Home field formats: WORLD SERIES 1871-1994: AL home odd years, NL home even years 1995-2002: AL home even years, NL home odd years 2003-present: All-Star Game winner LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 1969-1984: AL East/NL West home even years, AL West/NL East home odd years 1985-1993: AL East/NL West home odd years, AL West/NL East home even years **1994-1997: Home team is the winner of the series that did not contain the wild card 1998-present: Home team is the better seed **This is a simplification of the real life format, since the real format is impossible to replicate in OOTP. DIVISION SERIES Note: Prior to 2012, the home teams swap if the wild card would play the winner of their division. However, this stipulation is not possible in OOTP. 1994: AL West @ AL East, AL WC @ AL Central, NL Central @ NL East, NL WC @ NL West 1995: AL East @ AL Central, AL WC @ AL West, NL West @ NL Central, NL WC @ NL East 1996: AL Central @ AL West, AL WC @ AL East, NL East @ NL West, NL WC @ NL Central 1997: AL West @ AL East, AL WC @ AL Central, NL Central @ NL East, NL WC @ NL West 1998-present: Seeding-based, reseeding is irrelevant but should be turned on WILD CARD GAME 2012-present: Seeding-based |
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1995: NL East vs. NL Wild Card, NL West vs. NL Central; NL Central has HFA if they advance to NLCS. |
Someone's pitching into my wheelhouse I see. :D
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Here is how home field advantage was assigned to the divisions: 1994: AL East*, AL Central; NL Central, NL West* 1995: AL East, AL West*; NL East, NL Central* 1996: AL Central*, AL West; NL East*, NL West 1997: AL East*, AL Central; NL Central, NL West* Divisions marked with an * also received home field advantage for the LCS, or it went to the club that defeated them (excluding the wild card). Here's an example of how this arrangement affected the matchups for the Division Series. In 1995 the AL standings looked like this: Code:
1. Cleveland AL Central .694 But because home field advantage was assigned to the East and West divisions, New York can't play Cleveland since Cleveland doesn't have home field advantage. It can't play Boston either since they are both from the same division. So New York plays Seattle and Cleveland plays Boston, with Seattle and Boston having the home field advantage. If Seattle wins it gets home field advantage for the ALCS; if it loses then the winner of Boston/Cleveland gets home field advantage since New York, as a wild card, never gets home field advantage. It is perhaps easier to see how the matchups work by rearranging the standings. First, order by record the two clubs from the divisions assigned home field advantage; third place goes to the remaining division winner; and fourth place goes to the wild card qualifier. The 1995 AL standings now look like this: Code:
1. Boston AL EAST .597 |
thanks. nice work.
i know it was because of the strike, but was 1981 considered 3 rounds of playoff, or the first additional round only to determine the division champion, and not considered play-off? |
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Re: 1994-1997
Under the format in my post, the non-hosting division winner indeed gets HFA if they advance to the LCS. OOTP unfortunately cannot set HFA for every possible combination of teams, so it's impossible to replicate the exact rules. |
This is a great subject!
At the risk of being redundant as to what's already been posted above, I'm including my compilation of postseason-related historical rules, which includes scheduling parameters for MLB postseason series' (info for division series not as complete as WS and LCS) and also info tiebreakers and make-up game policy. Significant pieces of this were obtained from LGO's postings over the years... I refer to this often when I approach the end of my OOTP historical seasons. Code:
WORLD SERIES |
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