AL West and NL Central: Imbalanced and Unfair

by Brent Beck on Jul 30, 2008 11:16 AM EDT

Hey Pirates fans, I wrote and article that I posted on Red Reporter about the uneven division sizes in Major League Baseball, a dilemma which effects NL Central fans the most by putting us at a disadvantage at the start of every season (in comparison to every other team in Major League Baseball). In my mind its an outrage but I would love for you guys to check it out, drop a vote in, or even make a comment!

Thanks!

by Brent Beck

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I've been

beating that horse for years.

by bucdaddy on Jul 30, 2008 9:53 PM EDT reply actions

you cannot say that the odds are uniform. the odds of a team winning a division is not related to the number of teams in the division. games are not randomly decided.

by Blyleven Curve Ball on Jul 31, 2008 12:22 AM EDT reply actions

Sure it is related,

the Bucs have to beat two more teams than the Mariners.

Sure, a team’s talent level has more of an effect, but he is talking about how the number of teams affect the odds, independent of everything else. All else equal, it is tougher to finish first out of six teams than first out of four or five.

by DITO on Jul 31, 2008 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions

Wild-Card

it’s harder to win the division, but the same for every NL team to win the wild-card.
vr, Xeifrank

by Xeifrank on Jul 31, 2008 2:25 PM EDT reply actions

good point

And not to mention its impossible to schedule with odd numbers of teams in each league. So there has to be expansion or something crazy like that to solve this problem

by Reddrummer9187 on Aug 1, 2008 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions

Not true

The Pirates should expect to win the wild card once every 5 years. Teams in the other divisions once every 4.

by azibuck on Aug 1, 2008 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions

There's no reason

whatsoever you can’t have 15 teams in each league. Absolutely none. MLB just doesn’t want to, like it doesn’t want to settle the DH disparity once and for all. Fifteen-team leagues would work perfectly well if interleague matchups were spread through the season, rather than bunched into a couple weeks. But MLB wants its circus, and damned if logic should enter the discussion.

by bucdaddy on Aug 2, 2008 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions