The main thing that worries me about this wildcard format is getting caught off-guard by a hot opponent who has already been playing must win games prior to the series. Seeing the Mets in the last series would play to our advantage I think. We're also fairly familiar with the D'backs and we can win a slugfest series. The Braves look dead right now, but if they do make the WC it means they probably figured it out and I wouldn't want to cross paths with them.
Ideally I don't want us to do any significant resting/benching of key players, so I hope we're still fighting for the bye up to game 162. Get the rotation aligned and give the key players a game off, but that's all we should do. There's a day off prior to the WC series at at least one and potentially two days off prior to the DS. That's enough rest.