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Originally Posted by BBGiovanni
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The best way to do this is to use the original AL/NL as a guide.
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I do kind of agree with this (I think it's probably why I remembered liking Bluenoser's so much, he didn't do anything too weird), but one thing I really like about the idea of merging the leagues now (I would have said no before the universal DH) is that if say the Dodgers and Mets are the best teams in baseball then they can very easily make the World Series. Whereas with how things are now they obviously can't.
For example, in my test, the Dodgers, Braves, Cubs, and Nationals (2026) won their divisions with the Cubs having the best overall record and the Dodgers the worst of the four. And if the 4 best teams all come from the NL, then so be it. I'd be totally down for a Mets-Dodgers WS this year. But even if the second best team is in actuality a wild card, it could still end up facing the best team in the WS. The way OOTP set it up by default, the Yankees, who had the best wild card record, ended up in the Dodgers quarter of the bracket, but MLB could set it up where the 2 wild cards with the best records end up in the opposite side of the bracket. Or whatever you think is best, it's difficult to judge who really is the best regular season team when you use a heavily imbalanced schedule.