ganz79

Yeah, i realized you can have the 2nd best record in baseball and have your season come down to one home game. That's a flaw I didn't see offhand. I like the 3 league structure. They're geographically perfect. Maybe you could rearrange the postseason somehow with 12 or 13 teams. What I like about my proposal is that a decent Orioles team now has so many games against Yanks/Bos, and here they wouldn't have to play them as much. Plus you could have any world series matchup, such as Yankees vs Red Sox, Cubs vs Whitesox, not that I would want to see those.

This is too radical and would never happen but it could work... No AL and NL, instead 3 divisions of 10 teams West- Sea, Oak, SF, LAD, LAA, SD, Ariz, Col, Tex, Hou Central - StL, KC, Min, Mil, Cubs, WSox, Det, Cle, Cin, Pit East - Tor, NYY, NYM, Phi, Bos, Bal, Wsh, TB, Fla, Atl Season would be 162 games, 72 divisional games (8 games vs 9 other teams) 90 non divisional games (6 games vs 10 teams, 3 games vs other 10 teams, there would be seasonal rotation as to which teams you'd play 6 vs which you'd play 3. i.e. Brewers would play Yankees 6 times and Boston 3 times in one year, 3 vs Yanks and 6 vs Boston the next year) Postseason would have 13 playoff teams which helps small market teams (3 div. winners, and 10 wild cards) Knockout Round Round of 8 Round of 4 World Series 3 division winners would get bye to Round of 8 Knockout round would be one games series all on same day (maybe the Tuesday after the season ends) #1 Wild Card vs #10 Wild Card, #2 vs #9, etc. Start with an east coast game at noon ET, and start the next game every 2 hours or so, and finish with a west coast game at around 8 ET. 5 Knockout Round winners join 3 divsion winners in Round of 8. Round of 8 would be best of 5 series with all games in higher seeds ballpark (no travel, no days off). The divison winners would be the top 3 seeds, similar to NHL and NBA first rounds . Winners advance to Round of 4 where they are reseeded and have tradtional 7 games series. The team with the better record will have home field advantage in Round of 4 and World Series, which should end in October rather than November. The only things this does is makes the All Star Game difficult. Heck, get rid of it, or make it some radical pick 'em exhibition game. This gets more teams in the postseason, helping smaller market teams, makes winning the division important and makes your record imporant to host games in the first two rounds. Also keeps all rivalries intact ...but will never happen http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif