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Old 10-15-2021, 10:02 AM   #703
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Okay let’s use the Japanese playoffs as a comparable.

It’s a 12 team league, and 6 teams make the playoffs. Top team in each league, plus two other teams.

So 50% of the teams make the playoffs…in the MLB if 50% of the teams make the playoffs you’d have a 15 team playoff system.

If MLB went to a 16 team playoff, but gave the higher seeded team an automatic 1-0 series lead in the first round (which they do in Japan) that would be awesome.

That would be fun. But remember, North American sports wants parity and randomness, and then complain about ratings.
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