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Originally Posted by DodgerIrish
I love it. Regardless of how meritocratic it is, I think the casual fan would grasp the logic (even tho we understand it's faulty) easily.
The two leagues are playing each other, which team did the best against the other league?
Also gives one more thing for fans to monitor throughout the season. The reasoning behind the AS game was to make it more important. Well each interleague game played by a PO contender just got more important.
Really think it would be great for the game.
Divisions are already unfair, you can only strive for so much.
I don't really see the issue with just going by best record, even if it's not perfect. To me, the "better" team is the one that should get home field, so whatever metric we use should be the one that gets that right most often. Just because the "better" team only has the better record say 80% of the time doesn't mean we should just throw up our hands and go with something that only gets it right ~50% of the time (coin flip, alternating years, ASG).
Interleague record of the two teams is significantly better than those, but is just as biased by the unbalanced schedule as total record is, but with a smaller sample size. Simply changing it to best overall record already makes
every game played by a contender more important, and gives playoff teams even more to play for right up until the end of the season, since they're competing for HFA not just within their own league (and not just in interleague games).