Talk:Major League Baseball postseason

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Play-in tiebreaker
We need to add a section about play-in tiebreakers in case there's a tie at the end of the season. It's a significant factor since 2007. --76.177.12.118 (talk) 00:42, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * See One-game playoff. The tiebreaker is not part of the post-season. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 00:45, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Just awful
Who wrote this? They should be banned from contributing. If you can't write clearly, stop writing. You need a section on how the playoffs are conducted now. Written simply. Push the history lesson to another section titled "History" or some such. Again, this article is just simply awful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.147.132.254 (talk) 20:51, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Seedings
A question was raised about which seedings have won the World Series most often since the Wild Card was introduced. The answer is that the #1 seeds have won most often, and the Wild Cards the next-most often. Here are the 15 Series winners and their original seedings (each league of course has its own set of seedings 1 through 4):


 * 1994 - season aborted due to strike
 * 1995 - Atlanta Braves - NL #1 seed
 * 1996 - New York Yankees - AL #3 seed
 * 1997 - Florida Marlins - NL Wild Card
 * 1998 - New York Yankees - AL #1 seed
 * 1999 - New York Yankees - AL #1 seed
 * 2000 - New York Yankees - AL #3 seed
 * 2001 - Arizona Diamondbacks - NL #2 seed
 * 2002 - Anaheim Angels - AL Wild Card
 * 2003 - Florida Marlins - NL Wild Card
 * 2004 - Boston Red Sox - AL Wild Card
 * 2005 - Chicago White Sox - AL #1 seed
 * 2006 - St. Louis Cardinals - NL #3 seed
 * 2007 - Boston Red Sox - AL #1 seed
 * 2008 - Philadelphia Phillies - NL #2 seed
 * 2009 - New York Yankees - AL #1 seed


 * 6 #1 seeds have won the World Series
 * 4 wild cards (#4 seeds) have won the World Series
 * 3 #3 seeds have won the World Series
 * 2 #2 seeds have won the World Series

←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:43, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Home-field advantage -- need to remark about best-of-9 World Series
Currently, I see, regarding the World Series: "Initially it generally followed an alternating home-and-home pattern, except that if a seventh game was possible, its site was determined by coin toss prior to the sixth game." It then goes on to mention 1924 and subsequent years. However, before 1924 there was a little stretch where the World Series was best-of-9, not best-of-7, so the remarks need to take that into account. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 (talk) 18:09, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Earlier in this wikipedia article, it refers to 9-game format being used in "1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921". So if game 9 was possible in those years, was coin toss used prior to 8th game? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 18:27, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Redundant remark about home-field advantage in World Series
I am seeing: "(a) the first two home games and (b) home field in any seventh game in each World Series"

Isn't that redundant, given the 2-3-2 pattern for the World Series? The home team for game 1 would also be home team for game 7 if game 7 is necessary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 18:22, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Home-field advantage fuzziness
Re: "(In the 2-3-2 format, "home-field advantage" is generally considered to go to the team who would play the seventh and decisive game at home. However, if the series lasts only four or six games, the two teams play an equal number of home games; and if the series ends after five games, the opposite team actually ends up with the advantage, as they play three home games vs. two games at the "home-team advantage" teams' site.)"

It seems to me that whoever wrote this doesn't really understand what is meant by the term home-field advantage. It doesn't mean the team which ends up playing the most games at home; it means the team which starts the series at home and is allowed the potential to play more games at home. The idea is that since it's easier to win at home, the team that starts at home is likely to accumulate wins earlier and thus last longer. The team that starts at home might end up playing more games away, but it still has the advantage. I'm removing the parenthetical passage in question. If anyone wishes to reinstate it, please remark here. Thank you. TheScotch (talk) 06:48, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Tie-breaking criteria
There should be a section that lists the tie-breaking criteria used when two teams are tied and a one-game playoff game is not necessariy - like two division champions or two wild-card teams having the same record. It appears the first tie-breaker is the season record, but what if that is tied as well as non-divisional teams are sometimes scheduled to play only six games against each other. Is there a second and possibly other set of tie-breaking rules? Juve2000 (talk) 19:00, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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Division title
the MLB rules is stupid, Cubs won season series vs Brewers but had to play game 163 for "tiebreaker", Cubs should be division champs and Brewers WC, Cubs NL Central Division titles: 2003, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2018. Baseball has this all wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Speller (talk • contribs) 03:46, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * This talk page is a place to discuss the Major League Baseball postseason article and how it may be improved. It is not a forum to air views on the subject itself. --Jameboy (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I believe we should make improvements to our collective group of postseason articles, and that starts by merging List of Major League Baseball postseason teams, Major League Baseball wild card, Division Series, and League Championship Series into this article. Similar to the NFL playoffs article, the latter three will be covered in a current playoff system section, while the former one will be placed in an appearances section. I think if we put enough effort into it, this article will make for a drastic change from the (relatively) brief articles that currently exist. –Piranha249 17:43, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Awarding of bonus money
In this section, it is not explained where the money comes from which the bonus percentages Come from. Is it 60% of gate receipts? It’s not clear. Asherkobin (talk) 02:03, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

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