Comments on: Bud Selig’s Suggestion Box: Regarding Playoff Expansion https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/ Daily not graphy things Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: juan pierre's mustache https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-84329 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:17:34 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-84329 seriously though, you guys should probably take this down before Bud sees it and starts doing some all too dangerous thinking

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By: glassSheets https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83842 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:31 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83842 In reply to reillocity.

One flaw here is with 30 teams the top two teams would have to get byes (or a complicated bracket would be drawn up). That would leave your Mariners playing the third seeded team.

I actually like keeping it at 30 teams. That way the top seeded teams get byes and it makes every game matter in the regular season.

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By: ElJosharino https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83826 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:18:11 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83826 In reply to Yirmiyahu.

Julio Franco just became the hottest commodity in the history of baseball.

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By: Yirmiyahu https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83780 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:56:39 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83780 In reply to ElJosharino.

Addendum to this new system: teams can’t make mid-season roster moves.

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By: ElJosharino https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83771 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:40:24 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83771 Who says we need to keep this thing within one calendar year? Here’s my proposal: Each calendar year will be a best of 365 game series. The regular season consists of not 162 games, but 162 365 game series (no interleague). Regular season records will determine the seeding for the first round of the playoffs. The first round of the playoffs will be a Round Robin lasting 31 years (because we’re still expanding to 32 teams to make the next part work). Each team plays a best of 365 game set against each other team. The results of the round robin would determine the seeds of 1-32 for the double elimination tournament. The tourney is of course 6 rounds (7 if necessary) of best of 365. Should the tourney go the full 7 rounds, that gives us a nice even 200-year season+postseason.

Oh, what’s that Cub fans? You’re sad about not winning the World Series in over 100 years? See how you feel after not winning it for over 20,000 years!

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By: reillocity https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83762 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:02:48 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83762 The basic problem that I have with your 30-team playoff is the use of an antiquated statistic, team wins, to seed the clubs. FanGraphs’ Team Wins Above Replacement is a better metric for ranking the teams. So in reality the top-seeded Red Sox should be hosting the 30th-seeded Mariners in the first round of the 2011 edition of the 30-team playoff. Your Phillies and my Astros are in fact the 13th and 23rd seeds in such a tournament.

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By: Yirmiyahu https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83750 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:01:13 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83750 I enjoyed the satire.

But to be serious, I disagree with your premise. You’re implying that deciding the World Series based on a small sampling of games is unfair or an imprecise method of measuring talent. But this isn’t an election we’re talking about. The idea isn’t to use a precise system to decide the mathematically best team. If a 10-team playoff is a little less fair and less likely to award the World Series crown to the ‘best’ team… who cares?

I’ve always thought that it’s pretty unfair that left-handed batters, by virtue of their genes, get to see opposite-handed pitchers 2/3rds of the time.

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By: glassSheets https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83749 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:01:04 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83749 The “H” is for Huber.

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By: jake https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83747 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:57:44 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83747 You should probably also do a full league-wide redraft before every round and televise that. It would be so exciting, and then we could get to see the superstars play no matter what every single round!

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By: TC https://not.fangraphs.com/bud-seligs-suggestion-box-regarding-playoff-expansion/#comment-83742 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:46:14 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=18177#comment-83742 No inclusion of minor league teams? I’d bet money the Yankees’ AAA affiliate could take the Astros in a three game series

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