Time to dump the Wild Card?

I fucking refuse to believe that.

 

Ok, I am wrong, no one has ever suggested that.

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/number_crunching_major_league_baseball_favors_the_underdog_lets_play_256_ga/

 

Does Bill James work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, shitforbrains?

Edit: Good work Bucky.

I think we should go to watertreatmentlosers.org and just suggest stupid shit.

 

idiot --

Did you read that link? A group of physicists said it would take 256 games to eliminate statistical variance.

No one is suggesting, or has suggested, that they actually play that many games.

Kindly remove your head from your ass.

 

Wow, I am surprised, everyone here is so nice.

 

the good outweighs the bad. no doubt.

but it does take a lot of the steam out of this yanks-bosox deal. should the yanks overtake the bosox to win the division, it would have become the stuff of baseball lore, a choke akin to the '51 dodgers and '78 bosox.

but with the bosox pretty much assured of being the wild-card team, who really cares? heck, they won their long-awaited world series as a wild-card team.

 

physicists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory = "Bill James and his ilk"

it's shit like this that keeps me coming back.

 

And it didn't even include multiple colors and a scrolling marquee -- pointing out the idiocy that is The Network.

 

That's pretty much what happened in the Braves-Giants race in 1991 ... a bit exaggerated, but both teams won more than 100 games, and the Giants went home.

The WC talk started *very* soon after that, too. Geography (and not even that, given Atlanta was east of half of the NL East at the time) dictated that the two best teams (record-wise) in baseball were in the same division, and that one of them watched the playoffs on TV didn't seem right.

 

I think it is awesome that people spend their time ripping people just so they can feel important.

 

I agree that this Sox choke, if it continues, would be akin to 1978 if it meant the difference between the playoffs and elimination. It's for that reason why I think there should be some kind of stronger "penalty" for wild-card teams to make it harder for them to advance in the postseason.

(My suggestion: 1-1-3 format. First game at the 1/2 seed on a Monday, second game at the 4 seed on a Wednesday, travel day Thursday, then a Fri-Sat-Sun three-game series at the 1/2 seed. The non-WC series could be the same 2-2-1 format as it is now.)

But really, it's only the No. 1 division (almost always the AL East, which is a whole 'nother story) that has that "problem." The Cubs and Brewers are fighting for an elimination spot. The Mets and Phillies are fighting for an elimination spot. The D'backs and Padres' "race" won't seem to matter as much if they both get in, but it would if there were a stronger "penalty" for the wild card.

 

Quit being such a moron and people won't rip you.