World Series Home Field Tie Breakers Rule?

[BKL]

Now that the home field advantage goes to the team with the best regular season record, what happens if both teams advancing to the World Series have the same record? Which team gets home field advantage?

[thorpegiovanni]

The protocol for 2-team tiebreakers are as follow:

Determining Home-Field Advantage in Two-Team Tiebreakers
1. Head-to-head winning percentage during the regular season.
2. Higher winning percentage in intradivision games.
3. Higher winning percentage in intraleague games.
4. Higher winning percentage in the last half of intraleague games.
5. Higher winning percentage in the last half plus one intraleague game, provided that such additional game was not between the two tied clubs. Continue to go back one intraleague game at a time until the tie has been broken.

I'm sure the World Series tiebreaker would be something similar.

[BKL]

Originally Posted by thorpegiovanni

The protocol for 2-team tiebreakers are as follow:

Determining Home-Field Advantage in Two-Team Tiebreakers
1. Head-to-head winning percentage during the regular season.
2. Higher winning percentage in intradivision games.
3. Higher winning percentage in intraleague games.
4. Higher winning percentage in the last half of intraleague games.
5. Higher winning percentage in the last half plus one intraleague game, provided that such additional game was not between the two tied clubs. Continue to go back one intraleague game at a time until the tie has been broken.

I'm sure the World Series tiebreaker would be something similar.

Seems like games within your division or league wouldn't make as much sense for two teams in different leagues...but I'm not sure.

[thorpegiovanni]

I think it still would. Record against your division breaks tiebreakers in many sports.

[NoOne]

mlb uses that type of record as a tiebreaker because they play more games vs their division opponents relative to any other group of teams.

so, how are they grouped and whether that influences how often they play each other would determine if it's a good choice or not.

if they play each team the same #, it becomes quite arbitrary to reduce that sample in anyway. i'm not saying don't do it, i'm saying it's the same subset of data just with more sample error, lol. it's not helping matters - empirically.

the time ideas are kinda interesting... but still mostly arbitrary differences. for every example i thnk of there's a mirror that does the opposite in teh same proportion (assuming injuries are random, and ignoreing hot/cold halves as unpredictable when there isn't something tangible like an injury or player change of some sort -- real causation, not random)

going one game at a time after all other possibilities are exhausted doesn't seem right as i think aobut it superficially... speak of super, i gotta go..... these forums have eaten upthe proper amount of time, lol. cutting this short, i'm sure most are pleasantly happy about that

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by BKL

Seems like games within your division or league wouldn't make as much sense for two teams in different leagues...but I'm not sure.

The NFL omits division record when breaking ties for seeding among wild card qualifiers within a conference (unless the tied clubs are in the same division), for what it's worth. MLB does use division record, even if the clubs are in different divisions.