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Sep 25, 2024 · Game 1 of the 2024 World Series is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 25, with a potential Game 7 on Nov. 2. However, if the ALCS and NLCS both conclude on Oct. 19 or earlier -- meaning they both end in Game 4 or Game 5 -- World Series Game 1 would then move up to Oct. 22. That would put a winner-take-all Game 7, if necessary, on Oct. 30.
- Anthony Castrovince
We can argue about 3-game versus 5-game series, etc., but at the end of the day, no playoff format can ever be a statistically accurate way to rank team strength when compared to the regular season. So, if you primarily care about which team is statically the best, just follow the pennant races, and switch over to football for October!
It increases randomness and makes the playoffs “more interesting” but after a 162 game season these types of playoffs are just too random to me. Anything can happen in a baseball series. Manfred wants the playoffs (and a lot of other parts of MLB) to be more like the NFL, so he added a best of three wild card round, which I absolutely despise.
Oct 5, 2023 · The first team to win three games in the best-of-five series advances to the League Championship Series, and if a series is tied at 2-2 after four games, a decisive Game 5 is played to determine ...
Jan 1, 2024 · The League Championship Series and World Series will be played at neutral sites, as has been the case in recent years. As always, the ultimate goal is to win it all and be crowned World Series champions. Are the MLB playoffs best of 5 or 7? The MLB playoffs are a mix of best-of-five and best-of-seven series.
The Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is the annual playoff elimination tournament held to determine the champion of MLB in the United States and Canada. Since 2022, the postseason for each league—American and National—consists of two best-of-three Wild Card Series contested by the lowest-seeded division winner and the three wild card teams, two best-of-five Division Series (LDS ...
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That 2nd round, called the Division Series, are best-of-5-game affairs; then the remaining champion of each league battles in the World Series in a best-of-7-game format. It was not all that long ago (1993) when the Major League playoffs involved 4 teams and 2 rounds: the winner of each division in each league battling for the right to play in the World Series.