2006-09-23 14:25:04 · 6 answers · asked by spaz2k219090 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Believe it or not, the home team for any end of season ties is chosen by a flip of a coin.
The wild card team will play the division winner with the best record, unless both teams are from the same division. If they are from the same division, the division winner will play the division winner with the worst record. The wild card team will then play the division winner with the second best record.
2006-09-23 14:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was a little confused about being from the same division. I could swear the Yanks and Redsox have faced off in the first round before. Apparently this was not true or they have changed the rules since. Anway a summery of the quote I grabbed from Wikipedia is thus.
Division winner with best record plays the wildcard team unless they are from the same division. Then they play the division winner with the worst record. In the AL there is no way to say who will have the best record. The Yanks are at this moment a half game ahead of Detroit for best record in the AL but Oakland with his 8-2 in it's last 10 is just 2 games behind. So it could be any of them. The wildcard is almost certainly the Twins at this point. So if the series started today the Yankees would play the Twins and the Tigers would play the A's. The team with the better record gets homefield advantage. So the Yankees and Tigers would have the homefield advantage.
When two teams tie for the division there is a 1 game sudden death between them. The most notable was in 78 between the Yankees and Redsox when Dent hit his famous home run. Another recent example was the Cubs vrs the rockies. It also accounts for a few players having 163 games played in a season during thier career.
For wildcard I am not as sure as it's not addressed anywhere I can find and as far as I know hasn't happened yet.
At this given second LA and Philidolphia are tied for wild card. It would be amazing if they were still tied at the end of the year. LA is behind San Diego by only half a game right now. The Phillies and Padres finish up against a soft schedule while the Dodgers have to play St Louis much of the last week of the season. Houston who plays one game against Philidolphia and St Louis might just sneak back into it as they have the Pirates to end the season. A slump by LA and beating Philly head on plus winning all or most of the rest of thier games and a .500 play by philly against Florida and the Nationals and Houston is right back in there. St Louis which seems to have one game against most of the wildcard contenders might even get knocked out as the Stros are only 4.5 games behind them and 5 games behind LA right now. SD and LA are in a tight race. Houston, Philidlphia and Florida are also still in the race and the Cards are not assured of making the playoffs. The Cards play Houston for one game, then 3 against SD which MUST win to stay ahead of the Dodgers then finish off with 2 against the Brewers. Normally being 4.5 games up with only 8 to go is as good as having won but not for the card's this year. They could easily lose 4 in a row against the up coming schedule. That would bring Houston within a half game of them if Houston wins 4 in a row. One of them being head to head with St Louis.
Below is the best description and most complete I could find of the possible scenarios. Also is the official MLB scenarios.
2006-09-23 17:45:26 · answer #2 · answered by draciron 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is a tie for the wildcard position, it is determined by a coin toss. Winner of said toss gets home field advantage.
However, if there is a tie for the Division it reverts back to who has the best record amounst one another.
The wild card plays the 1st place team with the best record (unless they are in same division, aka AL Central this year).
If the wild card comes from that division they would play the 1st place with the 2nd best record.
2006-09-23 14:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When there is a tie for any playoff position, there is a one game playoff at the end of the season. Home team is determined by a coin flip the week before the end of the season. who plays who is usually determined by record, with the team with the best record playing the team with the worst record, however you can't play a team in your own division in the first round.
2006-09-23 14:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by cobyja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wildcard is gonna play the mets they have the best record
and One game plaYOFFs depend on a coin flip
I think on monday there flipping the coin just in case
2006-09-23 14:26:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Home field is determined by a coin flip.
2006-09-25 08:14:29 · answer #6 · answered by CSUFGrad2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋