[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by David Watts

Just because it's always been done, doesn't mean things can't change.

Why are you against baseball tradition?

Originally Posted by dunningrb

Teams play 14 games against their seven division opponents (98 games) and 7 games against their eight non-division opponents (56 games). 154 games total.

Seems perfect.

Doesn't work when actually making a schedule from that format: not enough series. MLB clubs in the 'modern' era have 52-54 series in the schedule. Your arrangement provides for only 44. That would mean series starts and endings would not tied to typical days of the week. While this practice is common in the minors, the majors don't structure their schedules that way.

One alternative is to use the 90-72 split of divisional-interdivisional games used in the 1969-92 NL and 1977-78 AL seasons. A club would play six of its divisional opponents 13 times and one opponent 12 times (90 games total), and 9 games against each club in the other division (72 games). The home-away splits in each series aren't equal, but that can be rotated annually (and MLB has been doing that for a long time).

A more divisionally-weighted option is to have a club play its seven division opponents 16 times each (112 games), one team in the other division 8 times and the other seven teams 6 times each (50 games). The division games would be split either 9-7 or 7-9 (i.e. five series), with one club played in an 8-8 split (6 series).

Originally Posted by OakDragon

Knowing modern ticket and concession prices (at AT&T Park, at least), I find that hard to comprehend.

Because one ticket sale pays for two games, rather than a separate ticket sale for each of the two games. With a separate ticket-purchasing crowd for the second game, that probably means more concessions sales as it's a new crowd of potentially hungry and thirsty people.