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09-21-2014, 01:31 AM | #1 | |
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Expanding your OOTP MLB league to 32 teams
Ever consider doing it? I actually did it last year. But now a team of experts at Beyond The Box Score have gone and done it with an actual documented expansion draft following all the proper rules. If you want to have a 32 team MLB league expansion draft, here it is, all done for you and wrapped up in a bow:
The 2014 Beyond the Box Score Expansion Draft - Beyond the Box Score
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09-21-2014, 09:12 AM | #2 |
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Seeing 4 team MLB divisions twice in one day on these forums is enough to bring tears to my eyes. And the day it happens and I die a sudden traumatic death, my tombstone shall read, "Four teams a division does not make."
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I see mistakes in Divisions because like KC and Washington not in South on a US Map. Also don't know how many people they had protected but I would had it at 60 and half of those wouldn't have been drafted.
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I love the idea of eight divisions of four teams each. No more bleeping wild cards. Win your division or go home.
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By 1998 (currently in 1995), I'll have 32 teams. I'm doing four 8-team divisions, just to be different.
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I don't mind 4 team divisions but not with 162 games. My major league has 4 team divisions and only plays 80 games at the 65 games mark their are nearly always 4-5 teams still fighting for the wildcard and not once has any wildcard team had a record less than .500. Had several division winners have sub .500 records though.
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When I expand to 32 teams, I stick with the previous NL version of 3 divisions of 6, 5, and 5 teams, with 1 wild card for the playoffs.
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What type of schedule is used with this 32, 8 division setup? Please tell me interleague play goes away.
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I like that idea and may steal it.
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I will even expand upon this....162 games...totally unnecessary. 130 games is plenty enough to figure out who's who..especially with four team divisions, and no inter league play. The post season should be in September, not October...of course this will never happen due to revenues.
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Something to note from MLB historical results is that the more divisions there have been the lower the average winning percentage of a division winner. From 1901-68, for example, the average winning percentage of a first-place club was .634 (that's the equivalent of 102.7 wins in a 162-game schedule). From 1969-93, the era of two divisions, the average winning percentage of a division winner was .593 (96.0 wins). From 1995-2013, the period of three divisions and wild card, the average winning percentage of a division winner was .587 (95.0 wins). The average winning percentage of a wild card qualifier was .572 (92.6 wins). The more divisions there are in a league the more difficult it becomes to find the proper balance between divisional and non-divisional games. Three divisions is more problematic than two, and four divisions is more problematic than three. |
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22 games against each division rival (66 games total) 12 games against each team in one of the other 4-team divisions (48 games total) 6 games against each team in the other two 4-team divisions (48 games) The division which has its opponents played 12 times each can be rotated annually on a three-year cycle. Or you could keep it permanent in which case you have effectively divided each league into two conferences (particularly if you match up the respective division champions in the playoffs). |
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Assuming the same post-season schedule setup in 2015 as 2014, then next year the World Series will start on Oct. 27th. The seventh game would be played on Nov. 4th. MLB could have avoided that by simply starting the 2015 regular season a week earlier: season opens Mar. 29th; ends Sept. 27th; World Series opens Oct. 20th; seventh game on Oct. 28th. For whatever reason MLB decided it did not want to open the 2015 season in March. |
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I tried the 4 team divisions, and immediately regretted it. Not so much how the schedule was set, but rather that it was very easy for a sub .500 team to win their division; likewise, very easy for a 90 win team to completely miss. I rather go with the 5-6-5 setup. In real life, interleague (probably as much as 'roided up players) brought the post-strike league back from the dead. I remember Detroit used to draw 10,000 per game; interleague games drew 40,000+. Same in Tampa. The problem was, facing the same 5 teams every year, during the same 2 weeks every season. I like the new setup, with interleague every day.
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