2025 Magic Number Thread

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[formerlybis]

48 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I don’t get why the Mets loss doesn’t clinch a playoff spot for the Brewers. 

Is there some goofy 3 or 4 way tie scenario involving the Giants that would knock the Brewers out?

Their 90 wins and 72 losses for the Mets and Reds knocks those 2 teams out because the Brewers have the tiebreaker over both of them. 

That leaves the Giants as the only other team in addition to the Phils, Cubs, Dodgers, and Padres that could beat out the Brewers. 

Not a big deal because it will be resolved soon enough anyway. 
 

I think you’re right - I think we’ve clinched a postseason berth. 
I believe both Cincy and NY can no longer catch us

[BruisedCrew]

11 minutes ago, formerlybis said:

I think you’re right - I think we’ve clinched a postseason berth. 
I believe both Cincy and NY can no longer catch us

On TV they were saying they need losses by the Reds and Giants. Maybe they’re not taking the tiebreakers into account. 

[SomewhereInTime]

47 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

On TV they were saying they need losses by the Reds and Giants. Maybe they’re not taking the tiebreakers into account. 

Either way, the odds would be over four trillion to one on the Brewers missing the postseason.  And that would be assuming every game is a 50/50 coinflip so in reality the odds would be much longer than that.  So it's not really worth it to research it and find out if they're wrong.

[duewizard]

 

[BruisedCrew]

5 hours ago, SomewhereInTime said:

Either way, the odds would be over four trillion to one on the Brewers missing the postseason.  And that would be assuming every game is a 50/50 coinflip so in reality the odds would be much longer than that.  So it's not really worth it to research it and find out if they're wrong.

I think the theoretical hang up would be a three way tie with the Mets and Giants at 90-72; The tiebreaker would be the record in just the games involving those teams. The Brewers at 6-7 would lose out to the Giants at 7-6. The Mets would be 6-6.

So the only thing left to make it a mathematical certainty that the Brewers will make the playoffs is one brewers win or 1 loss by either the Mets or Giants.

[RedStickBrew]

 

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[BruisedCrew]

According to JSOnline the Brewers have clinched a playoff spot.

They say that if the Brewers, Mets, and Giants all tied the Giants would get the 5th spot by virtue of having the best record in the games among the 3 teams. But then the next spot is determined by head to head between the two remaining teams and that would go,to the Brewers. 

[SomewhereInTime]

1 hour ago, BruisedCrew said:

According to JSOnline the Brewers have clinched a playoff spot.

They say that if the Brewers, Mets, and Giants all tied the Giants would get the 5th spot by virtue of having the best record in the games among the 3 teams. But then the next spot is determined by head to head between the two remaining teams and that would go,to the Brewers. 

That's kind of funny that the league screwed up the math on it.

[SomewhereInTime]

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[BruisedCrew]

25 minutes ago, SomewhereInTime said:

That's kind of funny that the league screwed up the math on it.

I went and looked at the MLB tie breaking procedures and, while it could have been more clearly written, I think the JSOnline guy might be misreading it.

For a 3 way tie it says to rank the 3 teams based on their records in the games among the tied teams. It only talks about going to the 2 team procedures if the second and third teams have the same record in the group.

in this case the ranking would be 

Giants 7-6

Mets 6-6

Brewers 6-7.

That would give the Giants the 5 seed and the Mets the 6th. Hopefully by about 10 PM tonight it will be an academic point.

This could come up again later for other teams with as tight as the wild  card races are in both leagues. 

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