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Originally Posted by 77smbg9177
That true that why if you read the playoffs coukd be changed to like the NFL or the NHL, and NBA
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I don't see how that helps, really, unless you propose to do away with divisions entirely. Anyway, I think you'd find baseball fans extremely opposed to the concept.
I personally am a fan of the current setup, but going to 16 teams like the NBA or NHL would simply be absurd in baseball. Those sports have always had extremely liberal playoff allowances, and I would point out two things about them:
1. The NHL isn't popular, so it's not like their playoff system helps them, and
2. The NBA is a sport in which playoff seeding is extraordinarily important; it's possible, but amazingly difficult, for an 8th-ranked team to win it all. That's not true in baseball.
It wouldn't be the end of the world or anything, but I don't see a lot of point in it, unless there's another increase in the number of teams, which isn't possible without some dramatic changes in the way the league is run.