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Taking thing into an OOTP context: Does the AI plan to sell off its best players when it has a certain winning percentage or when it is X games from 1st?
I'd rather do whatever setup means I have as few player dumps as possible (and yes, I do set trading to low), because the AI in my experience will do things like trade Barry Bonds for 5 minor league guys just because the Giants were having one bad year, something I don't think is realistic. |
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What they could do, though, is to to have 12 playoff teams, give the two top records a bye, and then have 2 of 3 series in the first round. Then, 3 of 5 second round, 4 of 7 LCS and 4 of 7 WS. All first and second round games would be at the higher seed's home park, to cut travel days and to balance out the disadvantage to better teams that a short series naturally confers. The main fly in that ointment is the lengthening of the playoff rounds, and of the season. So to do that, they could negotiate with the players union to cut the season from 26 to 25 weeks by accepting scheduling day night doubleheaders, in exchange for more generous contributions to pension funds. |
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I simply do NOT understand the sentiment behind shortening the season by a significant amount, e.g., down to 130 games, from 162. If you hate baseball so much that you want to see less of it, why not become a basketball or hockey fan instead? Those sports play only 80 games a season. Or better yet, become a football fan. They play only 16.
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I also don't see how baseball would benefit from a shorter season. I don't see how it would be advantageous to them from a business standpoint, and more to the point, how people would love the game any more. It's not as though baseball fans make it to game 155 and say, ah, the season's gone on too damn long, so **** it, I'm out of here. Or do they? Maybe they do and I'm just missing that. Perhaps I'm just watching baseball so intently at that point that I'm simply not hearing other fans checking out of the season because it's gone on too long for them. Personally, I would love for there to be more baseball. I wish the season were 168 games, or 176 or 184 games. I wish that it lasted into Thanksgiving day weekend. I would be ecstatic. I love baseball so much I want more of it. It just baffles me when people who claim to love baseball say they want to see less of it. To them I say, if you don't like baseball in October, you can always change to channel and watch "The Amazing Race" or "The Vampire Diaries" or "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." instead. And if your team is actually playing in October, then you don't have to go the ballpark watch them. You can go ... I don't know ... go ice fishing or dancing or bowling instead. I'll take your ticket for the game. |
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I'm not a fan of shortening the season, game-wise, though I do wish it ended earlier, for reasons similar to David's. Scheduling doubleheaders now and then would help a lot.
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AL: April 20 to Sept. 29 – 163 days NL: April 15 to Sept. 27 – 166 days 1919 (140 games) AL: April 23 to Sept. 29 – 160 days NL: April 19 to Sept. 30 – 165 days 154-game season played over 24 weeks Opening date: earliest, April 11; latest, April 21 Closing date: earliest, Sept. 25; latest, Oct. 3 Basically, MLB had historically closed its season in late September to early October. This wasn't much of an issue when the post-season consisted of only the World Series (typically starting the third day after the end of the regular season and the Series itself scheduled for seven to nine days). Now, of course, there are three rounds of playoffs, and even in its most reasonable compact form those three rounds require a 28-day schedule. Doubleheaders (of the single-admission kind) are no longer profitable, which is why they slowly disappeared from the schedule. One could use separate admission, day-night doubleheaders but players hate those which is why they are limited almost entirely to making up postponed games. |
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That reasonably requires at least a 31-day schedule. 1 day after the end of the regular season (set aside for possible tie-breaking games) + 3 days for best-of-three series + 1 day after end of series + 6 days for best-of-five series + 1 day after end of series + 9 days for best-of-seven series + 1 day after end of series + 9 days for best-of-seven series = 31 days. The two highest-seeded clubs would get five days off after the end of the regular season before starting their first post-season series. |
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Fifty-two seconds? Really?
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I'm joking. You did see that Bud formed a committee yesterday that's supposed to come up with ideas to speed up the game? Personally I despise the replay system. Not because it delays the game, but I hate the whole challenge aspect. The purpose of replay is to correct mistakes. Instead we have some hairboy created nonsense that turns the whole process into a game.
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I like it. A lot of bad calls have been corrected, we don't get angry managers throwing tantrums nearly as much, and all for only fifty-two seconds.
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If MLB expands to 32 teams, why not realign into two eight-team divisions in each league?
NL East: Atlanta, Charlotte*, Cincinnati, Miami, NY Mets, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington NL West: Arizona, Chicago, Colorado, LA Dodgers, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco AL East: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, NY Yankees, Tampa Bay, Toronto AL West: Houston, Kansas City, LA Angels, Minnesota, Oakland, Portland*, Seattle, Texas *new franchises No interleague. No wildcards. 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.
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