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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
While NoOne is undoubtedly correct in his assessment of the odds of the best team winning in 9 games being better than 7 games, I still voted for 7 games. The reason is, by the time the eighth and ninth games come around (if the best team did not indeed already win), it just seems too drawn out to hold any more interest and suspense.
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Just curious, if 7 games are interesting and full of suspense, and 9 games aren't; how do you manage to make it through a 162 game season?
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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Look at it this way: If MLB could possibly milk more dollars by going to 9 games in a series, they would have done so and that would be the norm. There has to be a reason why you have not seen 9-game series in many decades. Instead, as NoOne mentioned, they've added layers of playoffs to enhance revenue and those have had the opposite effect of making it likely that the best team wins.
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That may true irl, but we're talking OOTP here. Whether it's a best of 7 or best of 9 is purely preference in OOTP. I use best of 9 when I have a small league with very few teams in the playoffs. I use best of 7 when it's larger or has several teams in the playoffs. I had a league once, 1 division, 8 teams. Top 3 made playoffs with Div winner getting a by. The real bonus for winning the Div though was having a 2-7 home field split in the Championship Series. Winning the Division really meant something; and the added revenue helped too.
How's that saying go again... "It's your game, play it your way"