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Originally Posted by rats60
It definitely was that. With 1 Wild Card 5/17 or 29.4% won the World Series. That meant that a Wild Card team had a better chance to win than a division winner. Since they changed, it has dropped to 2/9 or 22.2%, now division winners are winning at a higher rate because of that one game. I understand these are small samples, but it is all we have. There definitely was lots of complaints about how many Wild Card teams were winning before they added the second team.
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OK but seems a stretch to me. The only explanation I can come up with is that sometimes the worse of the two wild card teams is winning the one game playoff and is not as likely to win going forward, but it still seems like small sample size.
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