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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
Seems pointless to play 162 games if the only reward is getting home field advantage in way-to-short playoff series - especially a 3 game series.
They had it right with the two wildcard teams having a one game playoff as it was always exciting and gave enough of a race at the end of the year for those two spots. You were also rewarded with and division series birth for winning the division.
Baseball is just way too high variance to have a 3 game playoff series and call it fair.
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Another way is to use the do it the NBA way.
1 v 8 and 2 v 7 (road team must win both games in the home team's park)
3 v 6 and 4 v 5 (best of 3 all in the home team's park)
I've stated this before, in Japan, if you don't win your league, you get ZERO home playoff games until the Final Series. There was a team, I believe a couple years ago, who from the 3rd spot, played 13 consecutive road games before hosting Game 3 of the Finals.