Playoff Series Format (PASSED)

[Qdog915]

Can I bring up a topic for this off season? This is going to sound salty but oh well.

It probably matters a lot less here than it does in real life, but because baseball is all about last at bats.....

I'd like to see us move to the traditional 2-2-1-1-1 playoff format instead of 2-3-2. I think the 2-3-2 takes away the home field advantage the higher seed has earned through a 162 game season. In a 2-3-2 format, the lower seed team needs to win just one road game in order to win the series in 5 games. However, the higher seed team has to win two road games to win in the same number of games.

Throw in the park that I had to go on the road to play 3 in a row and it gave my opponent an even bigger advantage when I should have that advantage as a higher seed.

I feel as though this, at minimum, neutralizes home field advantage and, at worst, actually makes it easier on the underdog team to upset the higher seed.

I know it sounds like I'm whining just because I lost, and I'm sure that I am to a bit, but I also feel this way in real life when it comes to playoffs and that's why its not used much at all. In fact, I believe the NBA used to use but moved away from it. The argument in real life is it saves money by only traveling twice...but that' isn't a problem for us.

[mstreeter06]

This was actually a topic I had written down to bring up...

I would be in favor of a 2-2-1-1-1 format for our best-of-7 series and ditch the 2-3-2 format. You are right about the road team stealing HFA by winning just 1 of the first 2 a series.

[claphamsa]

i dont care either way as i dont have an extreem park....but i love them

[mukerka]

I like it

[mikezone13]

I woudl be fine with it so long as we ditch the 'sim in home stretches' plan. I don't want to possibly have 5 sims for a wildcard series. Sim it as 3-3-1 and ignore simming by travel schedule. That way we're mostly done in 2 sims for the wildcard

[mstreeter06]

I woudl be fine with it so long as we ditch the 'sim in home stretches' plan. I don't want to possibly have 5 sims for a wildcard series. Sim it as 3-3-1 and ignore simming by travel schedule. That way we're mostly done in 2 sims for the wildcard

That's a good point

[Qdog915]

I personally don't care about the sim schedule, so I'm good with that.

[mstreeter06]

I really like the idea of moving to a 2-2-1-1-1 format from our previous 2-3-2 format for our Wildcard Series and League Championship Series.

Are there any objections to this? Any thoughts?

[Steve Wunda]

For the change through all playoff rounds

[mstreeter06]

Just a refresher for everyone...

Current Format...
Wildcard Series: 2-3-2, best of 7
League Championship Series: 2-3-2, best of 7
Federation Cup Series: 2-2-2-2-1, best of 9

Proposed Change Format:
Wildcard Series: 2-2-1-1-1, best of 7
League Championship Series: 2-2-1-1-1, best of 7
Federation Cup Series: no change - 2-2-2-2-1, best of 9

[Steve Wunda]

I meant to say yes to changing it through all the rounds.

Yes vote to proposed change from Virginia!

[Ohio GM]

yes to the change

[mstreeter06]

Colorado is a yes to changing the playoff format to 2-2-1-1-1 for the first two rounds from 2-3-2.

[Cannon Fodder06]

Vote yes - although do I qualify to vote since I've only made the playoffs once?

[JKGuy16]

This isn't a big deal to me, I'll vote yes on the change.