Well to be fair the same thing happens right now in baseball and all sports. No matter how many games you finish ahead of the other team, you still start the playoffs 0-0. This doesn't change that.
you didnt understand what I meant then. Why give a team that is 5 or 6 games out of the Wildcard race an extra opportunity to be part of the playoffs? For fun I just looked and here are the stats of the last 5 years of GB behind the WC winner and the 2nd place wild card team (this year not included)
2010 AL...6 games
2010 NL..1 game
2009 AL...8 games
2009 NL...5 games
2008 NL...1 game
2008 AL...6 games
2007 AL...6 games
2007 NL...1 game (actually 0 was a playoff to be the WC team)
2006 NL....3 games
2006 AL...6 games
so in most cases you're looking at a team who is 3-6 games behind the wild card team...again Budrick is playing the "Everyone's a winner" theory.If you cant garner enough wins in 162 games ot be the wild card well then you dont belong in the playoffs then
I would be like the NFL saying "OK we're gonna add 2 more teams to the playoffs and no byes"...then you'll see 7-9 or even a 6-10 team make the playoffs???