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Originally Posted by PhillieFever
Unfortunately,baseball dosen't lend itself to that sort of system very well,the only thing you can do is like the last poster said,have a round robin tournament
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In 1973, there was the possibility of a five-way tie for the NL East Division title. Though the major league rules only accounted for up to a four-way tie, in consultation with the MLBPA the projected way a five-way tie was going to be dealt with was as follows:
Tue Oct 2: PIT at NYN, MON at SLN
Wed Oct 3: CHN at MON/SLN
Thu Oct 4: PIT/NYN at CHN/MON/SLN
In other words, MON, SLN, and CHN would play a conventional three-way tiebreaker while PIT and NYN played a conventional two-way tiebreaker. The winners of each of these then meet in another conventional two-way tiebreaker.
In 2003, there was the distant chance of a five-way tie. The projected method there was slightly different: the team with the best head-to-head record among the tied teams would get a bye while the remaining four teams would play two conventional two-way tiebreakers. The two winning teams would then join the bye team in a conventional three-way tiebreaker.