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11-17-2019, 06:38 AM | #41 | |
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I have a solo save in the game set up just like that. I like looking at regional divisions as opposed to having my standings list all teams like it was before 1969. My playoff participants are the two highest records in the league though. It becomes another storyline and stat that I track when a team out of whatever division hasn't qualified for the playoffs in x amount of years. Last edited by Hrycaj; 11-17-2019 at 06:40 AM. |
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11-17-2019, 11:23 AM | #42 |
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I'd love to see peoples' heads explode when bad team's won the World Series.
And them twisting themselves in knots trying to explain it instead of just understanding that baseball has a lot of randomness that influences the outcomes. Last edited by CBeisbol; 11-18-2019 at 04:33 PM. |
11-18-2019, 02:15 PM | #46 |
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Has a “bad” team ever won the World Series?
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11-18-2019, 04:37 PM | #48 |
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I thought you were talking about “bad” teams “”winning” the World Series. IMO no bad team has ever won the World Series.
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18th in position player WAR
19th in pitcher WAR *Per FanGraphs Below the mean but still in the middle tier of teams. So, more of an average team. But, yes. When average teams make the playoffs they can win. And if bad teams made the playoffs, they would, occasionally, win. |
11-19-2019, 10:02 AM | #52 | |
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The NFL really didn't start to make any inroads until the 60s and wasn't a serious TV competitor until later than that. NBA championship games were shown tape delayed after the 11 o'clock news well into the 70s. The situation has changed. NFL is king of the TV sports scene, with even the draft getting wall to wall coverage for months. For national sports coverage, the beginning of the MLB season gets drowned out by March Madness and the NBA Finals, and many people tune out once pre-season starts. That may not apply to you, it doesn't apply to me. I am a major baseball fan, don't care about NBA and watched my first full NFL game of the season this past Sunday, but I and probably you, do not speak for the rest of the country. While baseball is still making money and attendance is OK, the demographic breakdowns and not good. MLB is pulling less and less younger fans all the time. It has almost completely lost the black audience. I listen to a fair amount of local talk radio, in Chicago, Cincinnati and Detroit mainly. As bad as the Lions and the Bengals have been, they still become the primary topic by August if the Reds/Tigers are not in the hunt. the Cubs get attention in Chi no matter what, but even they dwindle once Da Bears are being seen on TV. 33% is, overall, a bit higher than I would like, but 2 of the teams are gone after 1 game which drops the percentage quickly to 27%. This is pretty reasonable and in line with the other major US sports.
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11-19-2019, 10:25 AM | #53 |
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Well, let's see.
Too many strike outs. Too many home runs. Too many pitching changes. Young people not interested. Games too long. Poor player retention. Multiple "always a loser" franchises. Let's fix baseball! We'll do it by.... putting more teams in the playoffs. Yea, that's it!!! |
11-19-2019, 11:14 AM | #54 | |
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I think that baseball has been working too hard to keep the purists, like me, happy. If you only look to keep the hard-core fans happy, all you will have left are hard-core fans and very few of them.
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11-19-2019, 11:24 AM | #55 | |
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What caused MLS to start to get more popular here was it eliminating ridiculous rule changes and keeping the purists happy. But if baseball wants to continue to lose people like me, that's their right. (The only reason I have OOTP is to play historic games as I just cannot stand how the sport is played today for so many reasons.) Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see how pissing off the hard-core purists is going to help the sport grow. It didn't work with MLS, and it also didn't work with the NHL. |
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11-19-2019, 11:32 AM | #56 |
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33% is a lower percentage than the NFL (12/32, 37.5%) or the NBA (16/30, 53%) take to the playoffs.
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12-13-2019, 05:52 AM | #58 |
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I assume my answer to this question will get me flagged and reported, but I'd half the season .... I'd half the seasons for NHL & NBA too though, if that helps
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12-13-2019, 10:17 AM | #59 |
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After thinking about it more and setting my own universe up, I would create 4 leagues, 8 teams in each league, each league would have a partner league which would rotate each year so you would partner with each of the other leagues once every 3 years. Regular season would be 130 games, 14 games against each in league opponent and 4 games against each partner league opponent. At regular season end, the 2nd and 3rd place would teams in each league would play a 5 game playoff with the winners advancing against their league regular season champion for a 7 game series. That winner would advance to play the winner from their partner league with that winner advancing to play against the winner of the opposite 2 leagues.
Regular season would start around April 10 and end first week in Sept.. World Series would start about 1st week in Oct.. Also move all star game to about 30 games before season end. Advantages, Even the 5th/6th place teams can make the playoffs with 30 games to go so fan interest should still be high near season end. With 130 games the pennant races and the competition for 2nd and 3rd place will be closer with 30 games left in the season compared to a 162 game regular season. Regular season ends before football gets in high gear. Home team fans can see all the teams from the other leagues once every 3 years. First and second place teams will still play hard near season end to maintain home field advantage for the playoffs. This will never happen because more games means more money even if it make the pennant races more boring. Making the games themselves quicker and better is totally a different topic. The only games I have watched in the past 10 years are the World Series and some of the playoffs. Here in Chattanooga once college football starts, the talk shows stop talking about baseball. Even during the middle of summer, they talk more about football than baseball. |
12-15-2019, 11:20 PM | #60 |
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The reason we're playing in November is because MLB wildly expanded the playoffs. It used to be that the two leagues had two divisions each, and the division winners would play best of five for the pennant with the World Series being best of seven, a total of 17 postseason games max which could be played in under three weeks (ending in the month of October).
I hate that so many teams get a shot at winning it all, but a lot of fans really like it. So, I also believe that going back to 154 games is the answer. |
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