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The rules La Grande puts up look fine to me...
The thing is the tiebreaker rules were bogus last year. It doesn't make any sense, or didn't. The tiebreaker rules are quite simple... but on September 29 last year it was still possible for Cleveland, NY, Boston, and Chicago to be all tied at 96-63. If I recall correctly, the postseason was already set by the head-to-head records.
I do know Chicago clinched the division at this point.
If I remember, Boston and NY were playing each other... so on September 30 a 3 way tie wasn't possible anymore, but Cleveland still could have tied for the wild card... but again the post season was already set.
It was actually kind of funny, they spent a week talking about the tie breaker rules and all the strange things that could occur if there was a 3 way tie with Boston NY and Cleveland... then it came down to September 29 and they were talking about Chicago playing Boston in the first round and Cleveland was just a day late and a dollar short.
Apparently not even MLB knew what it's rules were, because all the supposed tiebreakers were already decided.
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