162 to seed about half of the league in the playoffs. The kids will love it.
well, it's not worse than the NBA and NHL. Isn't this basically the NFL set up now, except for 3 divisions instead of 4? The article also talks about having a lottery among non-playoff teams for the top 3 picks, which sounds like the NBA.
I liked the NBA's play in approach for teams 7-10 in each conference last year, but the NBA is less weather-dependent and so can stretch its playoffs (interminably). For baseball, 3 game series with no travel for the wild card round, followed by a 5 game division series and 7 for LCS and WS would not be stretched too far.
