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Originally Posted by bababui
Byes in baseball are horrible ideas because they would hurt both the hitting (loss of timing) and pitching (losing conditioning). In OOTP? Why not? IRL? Never.
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I'd much, much, rather see byes in baseball than the 8th best team in the league take out the best team in a 7, or worse 5, game series after the 162 games of a regular season. Wild card teams taking out the best team in the league in 5 game series are bad enough.
This layoff decline you speak of is over-played and inescapable anyway. Yeah, I'm big on momentum coming in to the playoffs, but hot teams can go cold fast too. And time and again you'll have one series finish early and the other late giving one a lot of time in-between anyway.
If you gave a team the choice of taking a bye and getting the advantages and disadvantages of it vs playing an opening series and possibly losing it, what do you think they'd take? You'd just be being silly if you think they'd rather play the series.
I think I like the playoffs okay enough the way they are (I'd prefer 7 game 1st rds), but if they did insist on expanding, I'd hope they would give the best teams byes like the NFL does rather than have them play teams that really don't deserve to be there and be knocked out.