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That's awesome, glad this helped!

you should be glad she loves your bum ass lmao

I appreciate the feedback! Glad this helped and you're getting into baseball!

i realize I'm kinda off topic but do anybody know a good place to watch new series online ?

@Henry Caspian i watch on Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

@Jerome Lochlan definitely, I've been using Flixzone for years myself :)

@Jerome Lochlan Thank you, I went there and it seems to work =) Appreciate it!

Thanks that's awesome to hear!

Haha yeah the playoffs have really expanded since then. More teams makes it more exciting in my opinion

Yeah and there were only 2 divisions in each league back then and you needed to win your division to make the playoffs. There were multiple times back in that era when the team with the second best record in their league missed the playoffs because the best record was in their own division.

@@outtaherebaseball3205 waters it down and there will be teams that have no business being there much like the nba

only Giants fans think that

I don't really understand the rules you wanna add.

@@borisgoykhman5547 Dodgers won 106 games, and played St Louis who only won 90 games; so the difference is 16 games. That is a huge difference. There should be a certain amount of max games difference that there wouldn't be a wild card game.

not how you spell finally dummy

because great baseball players from around the world tend to move to the US to play.

@@omniqwerty4175 Nah that could be said in other sports but not baseball really only Canada, USA, and some of japan is into baseball

Yessir

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A seed is basically just a ranking system to determine who goes where in the playoff bracket. The 1st and 2nd seed teams skip the wildcard round and go right to the divisional series. The 3rd 4th 5th and 6th seeds go to the teams that will play in the wildcard round. 1st seed goes to the division winner with the best record in their respective league. This year it was the orioles in the AL and the braves in NL. The 2nd and 3rd seeds go to the remaining division winners in order of win/loss record. For this year in the AL that was Houston with the 2nd seed which also means they get a bye (meaning they skip the wildcard round) and the twins got the 3rd seed. It’s a little confusing because a team like the rays have a better record than both Houston and the twins but since they didn’t win their division they end up getting the 4th seed.

It used to be that way but it was changed prior to 2017 as part of a new bargaining agreement

Outta Here Baseball Whoa! Definitely didn’t know that, thanks 👊

Ur new to sports I'm guessing.

This was made 4 years ago mlb has changed the playoff format since then. Now there’s 2 wild card series in each league consisting of 4 teams thats best out of 3 instead of just 1 game, and the top 2 division winners in each league get a bye and skip to the divisional series

Well the US did invite Canada but Canada only has one team that aren't to great anyway.

it got changed to win-loss in 2017 instead of the all star game

That's EXACTLY what made the NBA playoffs horrible. You shouldn't be the second worst team in your division but still make it to the playoffs and/or the postseason. As a compromise, I propose a 12 team format with each league getting 6 teams with 3 division winners, and 3 wild card teams. First things first, under my format the wild card game would become the wild card series, it would be a best of 3 series, the 2 worst wild card teams would play each other in the wild card series, while the best wild card team and the division winner with the worst record will play each other in the best of 3 wild card series. The two best division winners will get a bye from the wild card series and face each other in the traditional best of five division series. The winner of the wild card series match up between the 2 worst wild card teams and the best wild card team and the division winner with the worst record will face off against each other in the best of five division series. Whoever wins that will face off against the winner between the the 2 best division winners in the tradition best of 7 league championship series and the winner will head off to the traditional best of 7 world series. The reason I think this format is better than the 16 team format is because it let's more average teams get in the playoffs while making sure, unlike the NBA that bad teams still don't get in.

@Jon Doe I never said there is anything wrong with the current format. I was proposing the 12 team format as a compromise.

@Jon Doe Maybe if people still wanna keep the current format, just make the wild card game from a single game to a wild card series of a best of 3.

@Jon Doe But I mean think about it. The Wild Card game is only 1 game, so basically you're playing 162 games not even counting spring training then you become a Wild Card team now suddenly that 162 games you've put in is all just for this one game that could determine if you will take home the WS cup. It would be nice if it was a best of 3 series so that let's say since the Yankees lost the Wild Card game for example they would still get one more chance.

@Jon Doe Well, that's your opinion, but why do you think it's better for it to be a single elimination game rather than a best of 3?

Have you watched the video?

@@heatseeker08 I mean the guy is somewhat right I like the NBA and NHL playoff brackets much better the wild card game kinda sucks

I really hope it doesnt happen

Outta Here Baseball let’s keep the focus on the cheating ‘stros. This is a way to get ppl to stop going in on them with spring training next week

Omg it was so bad. They claim it wasn’t real and wasn’t supposed to get out, but idc either way, it was dumb to even joke about. I like the idea of expanding playoffs, but expand the league first and add more divisions to do it, don’t make it a reality show.

Glad I found this comment. Dodgers won the 2020 WS fair and square. Houston cheated.