After one year, this MLB postseason schedule innovation is no longer
The World Series could end in November of this year. Major League Baseball can do without all the jokes “M. November “, so the league made a creative stage last year: a flexible start date for the World Series.
It is not easy to grasp a four -round qualifying series in a month. But it is even less ideal if the World Series teams cross the series of championship championships, then sit almost a week before the start of the World Series.
MLB unveiled this creative reform last year: if the two World Series teams finish the championship championship series in just five games, the start of the World Series would increase three days. Nothing kills interest in a daily sport as a week of leave before the most important matches of the season.
The reform did not come into play last season. Although the New York Yankees won the American League championship series in five games, the Dodgers needed six games to finish the NLC.
When MLB announced on Tuesday its calendar of the playoffs, the flexible start date of the World Series has disappeared. Dodgers winning a victory for what’s going on last season, league officials and television partners had the chance to prepare two possibilities for the start of the World Series. The uncertainty of the date to promote and the need for travel plans and alternative hotel blocks left the parties to the idea that a fixed date for the World Series has remained a better plan.
The World Series this year should start on Friday October 24, with a possible match 7 on Saturday November 1.
Joker’s round begins on Tuesday, September 30, the series of the Division series starting on Saturday October 4. The teams with the two best records of each league obtained a bye in the first round and qualify directly to the division series.
If the playoffs started on Tuesday, the Dodgers (68-51) would be the seeded n ° 3 in the NL, behind the Milwaukee Brewers (74-44) and the Philadelphia Phillies (69-49). The Jokers teams, in order of seeds, would be the Cubs of Chicago (67-50), San Diego Padres (67-52) and the foods of New York (63-55).
In this scenario, the Dodgers and Pets – The NLCS fighters last season – would meet in the Jokers tour this season.
