Expanded playoffs are here, and while we may have some mixed feelings about it, they do give us more baseball. We will see if more post-season teams are here to stay, but the expanded format did get me wondering about how baseball history might have changed had the post-season expanded a long time ago. How many post-seasons would we have experienced in Kansas City? Let’s look at how some post-seasons would have looked much differently.
In this year’s playoffs, the top three division winners were the top three seeds, the three second-place teams were the next three seeds, then the next two best teams were the final two seeds.