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  1. 10-12-2008, 09:38 PM #1
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    Question that I think I know the answer to

    In Major League Baseball, if a team wins its division with a record of, say, 86-76, and said team faces the Wild Card team in the first round of the playoffs, if the Wild Card team has a better record, say 92-72, the division winner still gets home field advantage, correct?
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Ok, that's what I thought. Thanks .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kobie View Post
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Wait, winning the division gets you automatic home field advantage over a wild card winner? That's kinda lame...
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Yeah. Because two teams from the same division can't face off in the divisional round of the playoffs. Which is why it was Red Sox - Angels and Rays - White Sox.

    If teams from the same division could play each other in the LDS the Angels would have gotten the White Sox, and the Red Sox and Tampa would have played each other. But because of that rule that's not how it worked out.
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    The Sox not playing the Rays had nothing to do with this rule. The Angels had the best record in the AL, not Tampa, so they got the WC team, Boston.

    The better example was in the NL, where the Cubs had the best record, and would normally have gotten the WC as its div series opponent. But since the Wild Card was Milwaukee... in the same division as the Cubs, then the Cubs instead got the other division winner with the worst record... the Dodgers.
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Wait, I'm confused...


    Say Team A (104 wins- Division winner) faces Team B (105 wins- Wild Card winner) in the Division Series- Team A will get home field advantage?
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    yes wild card NEVER gets the home field. and justly so... if they won the division they would get in. if it was still 2 leagues they wouldnt have gotten in so they are lucky as it is
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Quote Originally Posted by TheNamelessPoet View Post
    yes wild card NEVER gets the home field. and justly so... if they won the division they would get in. if it was still 2 leagues they wouldnt have gotten in so they are lucky as it is
    That sucks though.

    Say there's a division winner with 75 wins and a wild card with 104 wins... the division winner deserves home field advantage?
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Quote Originally Posted by metsguy234 View Post
    That sucks though.

    Say there's a division winner with 75 wins and a wild card with 104 wins... the division winner deserves home field advantage?
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    agreed...

    You have to be better than the teams in your division... thats the rules...
    If its a HR winning contest and I hit 25 a year for 10 years and you hit 50 for 5 years... who do you want on your team??? (asuming you have no other real power threats)

    Its not a great argumant but it makes sense in my head... (then again world peace does to )
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Quote Originally Posted by ohms_law View Post
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    Okay, let's put it this way

    Division A consists of

    Detroit
    Baltimore
    Washington
    Seattle
    San Diego


    Detroit wins with 74 wins


    Division B consists of
    Anaheim
    Boston
    Chicago (NL)
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    Anaheim wins with 100 wins, but Chicago with 97 wins gets the wild card. Chicago's not a better team then Detroit?
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    Chicago wouldn't play Detroit most likely. They would play the winner of a team that won the third division considering the wild card requires four teams. Unless they meet in the LCS...

    But your right Chicago is a better team but division titles mean more then the wild card. It's just the rules. You play better then the other teams in your division, that's how it goes.

    If something as outrageous as your example occurs though I'm sure people will start talking about changing it...but I doubt any team will ever win a division with a 74 win season...
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    Re: Question that I think I know the answer to

    It's not about whose the better team, its about whose the best in their division. At least with the way the rules are now.

    A team win 97 wins should have no problem destroying a team with 74 wins homefield or not anyways.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kobie View Post
    Ryan is No. 0. He doesn't make the list, since he's clearly on a higher plane of existence than all other quarterbacks, living or dead. He is ... teh messiah.
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