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Originally Posted by oman19
I love this one game playoff exactly the way it is. If you don't want your season to come down to one game...simple solution....win your division.
Previously I think the first round was to much of a crapshoot. The wildcard would line up in a best of 5 with the top seed and have no disadvantage aside of the one game extra home game the higher seed has.
Now you have to blow your best pitcher most likely to advance to the "second round" while the higher seed gets to set their rotation as they like.
If it was a 3 game series the teams now in the play in would be sitting around to long which would hurt them in the long run. For once I think baseballl has it just right.
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Excellent post, particularly the bolded part. This arrangement puts more incentive back into winning the division as it should be, rather than just making it to the playoffs. Now, yeah, maybe the wildcard team doesn't win those five-game series as often, again as it should be. Well, OK then.