Game Date: Feb 18 2030
Signings:
Atlanta: RP Bruce Roughly (Maui), 1y / $422k
Houston: SP Kevin Kepner (Highland) 2y / $4.96m
Atlanta: 1B Jesus Flores (Brick) 1y / $464k
Philadelphia SP John Ryan (extension) 1y / $1.22m
Atlanta: 3B Richard Bender (Houston) 1y / $540k
Note: When the schedule was rebuilt after realignment, the computer chose an unbalanced schedule. Both Michael and I are inclined to keep it unless there is significant opposition.
Next sim: Tuesday night.
By the way, tomorrow night's sim will bring us, finally, to the start of Spring Training. Games will be played again soon!
ReplyDeleteI'm against the unbalanced schedule. Pay off the reason I was ambivalent to realignment was the balanced schedule (before I was put on with Seattle).
ReplyDeletePay off = part of. Damn autocorrect.
DeleteI prefer a balanced schedule as well. I think it's important when there are wild cards to have a balanced schedule, because otherwise the teams fighting for the wild card aren't really in equivalent positions.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the point of divisions, then, if we play a balanced schedule?
ReplyDeleteThe imbalanced schedule has 22 games against the other three teams in the division, and 12 games against the other 8 teams. That seems particularly fair to me, similar to how MLB and the NFL does things, and those leagues also have wild cards.
I can only speak for myself, but I think the point of divisions is to help foster rivalries with specific teams. You know you're going to be slugging it out with the other three teams in your division for a playoff berth and so that feeds into creating rivalries with those teams.
ReplyDeleteI've always thought that MLB is wrong to have an unbalanced schedule while having wild cards. As for the NFL, there just aren't enough regular season games to balance things out, so it's not practical to have a balanced schedule.
Just my two cents.
"You know you're going to be slugging it out with the other three teams in your division for a playoff berth and so that feeds into creating rivalries with those teams."
DeleteWouldn't it be better to play 22 games a year against the teams you're forming rivalries with instead of just 15?
Not if it means that teams competing for wild cards could have a difference of 5 games or more in the win column just based on who they played.
DeleteI am largely ambivalent about this, so I will defer to others (particularly those in Seattle's division).
ReplyDeletei have several thoughts on the subject....first off i believe that the playoff set up is fine and shouldn't change...the in balanced schedule isn't a bad thing except the fact that with that any team in Seattle's division will have little chance of making the playoffs because of the 22 games with each division rival... the other numbers don't match up until you play 14 within the division and 15 from outside the division which defeats the purpose i say leave that alone too and third i do not understand why my media revenue dropped 8 million when my team won 101 games and reached the cup isn't that against the system we discussed last year
ReplyDeleteMaui's media revenue decreased significantly this year too (from $99 million to $88 million) for reasons that aren't clear to me.
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