2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[casimir]

19 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

Congratulations to the Central North East Division Champions!

I know there’s quite a desire for 4 team divisions if/when MLB expands to 32 teams.  Then the playoffs become something like all division winners (8 teams) plus a smaller number of wildcards (4 or 6).  The problem with that is the increased likelihood of a team with a losing record falling into the playoffs as a division winner.  The NFL allows its losing record division winners into the playoffs.  In my mind, that’s appalling for a professional sports league.

@chasfh has always called out that MLB owners are unlikely to want 8 team divisions as nobody wants to be owner of a team in 8th place.  I don’t disagree with his interpretation of the owners desires might be.  I just don’t like the math behind possibly keeping a better team out of the playoffs because a losing team wins a cruddy division.  It’ll happen at some point.

Along those lines, the NHL has 8 team divisions.  I honestly don’t know if a team with a losing record has made the playoffs as a wildcard under the current setup, but I highly doubt a losing record team has won a division.  I know they’ve had some wacky top 3 teams in the division and then there’s some variable with the final 2 teams in each conference.  Maybe the last 2 are based purely on record regardless of division?

Now I wouldn’t completely adhere to that, I’d just take the top whatever number of records regardless of division.  So, congratulations to the NFC South Carolina Panthers, but the Detroit Lions or Minnesota Vikings are taking your playoff spot as they had a better overall record. 

Honestly I think a lot of this fervor for 4 team divisions is just blindly following what the NFL does.

[tiger2022]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

I know there’s quite a desire for 4 team divisions if/when MLB expands to 32 teams.  Then the playoffs become something like all division winners (8 teams) plus a smaller number of wildcards (4 or 6).  The problem with that is the increased likelihood of a team with a losing record falling into the playoffs as a division winner.  The NFL allows its losing record division winners into the playoffs.  In my mind, that’s appalling for a professional sports league.

 

The fact that 50% of the teams would make the playoffs is appaling.

When I was a little kid I remember the NHL having 21 teams and 16 would make the playoffs.  That was a complete joke.  The playoffs generate money so they are always looking to add more teams.

[Tiger337]

 

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