MLB的新季後賽變革？ - 美國職棒

https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/mlb-plotting-playoff-expansion-with-
reality-tv-twist/

https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1226993415537090560

在MLB on Fox的推特以及紐郵的文章看到看到 (引用自Joel Sherman)

大聯盟官方正在研議新的季後賽規則，其中包括：

1.每聯盟各取七隊打季後賽

2.第一輪取三戰兩勝制

3.每個聯盟的第一種子免打第一輪

4.成績較佳的隊伍可以挑對手打，例如以下這段：

In this concept, the team with the best record in each league would receive a
bye to avoid the wild-card round and go directly to the Division Series. The
two other division winners and the wild card with the next best record would
each host all three games in a best-of-three wild-card round. So the bottom
three wild cards would have no first-round home games.

The division winner with the second-best record in a league would then get
the first pick of its opponent from those lower three wild cards, then the
other division winner would pick, leaving the last two wild cards to play
each other.

To use the AL last season as an example, the Astros with the best record
would have received the bye. The Yankees, with the second-best record, would
have had the choice to pick from among the Rays, Indians and Red Sox. Boston
had the worst record of that group. Would the Yanks pick them or avoid the
baggage of a series with their rival? It would create a ton of strategy and
interest, and this is what MLB wants to sell. The Twins would then pick next
as the other division winner, and then the A’s with the best wild-card
record would play the team not chosen by the Yankees or Twins.

「以去年為例，假設美聯七支隊伍打季後賽，太空人戰績最佳故免打首輪；戰績第二佳
的洋基可於光芒、印地安人以及紅襪間挑一隊作為第一輪的對手；接著輪到戰績第三佳
的分區冠軍雙城挑對手。至於沒被洋基雙城挑到的隊伍就和戰績最佳的外卡隊伍運動家
對陣。」

這樣其實也或多或少解決一戰定生死的風險。而且因為首輪三戰兩勝制，分區冠軍享有
此輪所有主場優勢，還可挑對手，對球隊來說還是有拼分區冠軍的誘因。這理論上也不
太會有G163了。

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