Home field advantage and all-star game

[spineguy]

Are they still doing the winning league gets home field advantage?

I thought it was a 2 year experiment..

 

Please correct me...

 

it would be a shame for the Cubs to end the season with the best record and playing so well at home not to have the home field advantage....

[CuseCubFan69]

IMO....the NL winnning this game may effect the Cubs ability to win the WS. I don't know if this stupid rule is still in existance but I'd hate to see the Cubs have the best record and have this game effect it. That being said, gotta take care of business first and have the best record of course.

[Jon]

My problem with making too much about home field advantage being decided by the All Star game is that the All Star game has to be as big of a crapshoot as there is. Having the best talent doesn't mean a whole lot when pitchers aren't going 100% with their normal routines and position players don't play the entire game. I think it's a stupid idea and it probably should be determined by best over all record, but it's not any more or less arbitrary than simply alternating years. And even best overall record isn't a perfect solution.

[Old Style]

It still determines home field for the WS. Incredibly STUPID move by Selig.

[Schwarber Fan]

It still determines home field for the WS. Incredibly STUPID move by Selig.

 

Especially after this

[CuseCubFan69]

It still determines home field for the WS. Incredibly STUPID move by Selig.

 

Maybe Lou will take Randolphs place and nudge Hurdle a little to make sure they win this thing.

[Clem Fandango]

The sad part is that a team filled with mostly the best players in the NL, probably still won't be able to beat a team made up of 80% Yankees and Red Sox. And yesm I know that's a little embellished, but still.

[shnsajax]

3 of the last 4 WS have been sweeps with the other going 5 games. Still the fact that the NL has not won since '96 is just stupid.

[Derwood]

It's pretty much the worst idea Bud Selig has ever had. I nearly started a Rant about this last week. There is no other sport on the planet where home field advantage is more important. The very rules of the game are designed for the home team to have the upper hand. To determine this via a mid-season exhibition game is almost unthinkably stupid. I really, really don't understand why MLB is so obstinate about NOT letting the best record have Home Field in the WS. It's incomprehensible.

[CuseCubFan69]

I still think, if the team with the best record doesn't have homefield, that the league that has the best inter-league record has the home field advantage.

[Clem Fandango]

In the end though, we can all hope for a Yankee injury in the all-star game so Hank Steinbrenner has another thing to rant about

[Soul]

Incredibly stupid idea to have a game that nobody cares about determine home field advantage for the games that EVERYONE cares about.

 

It just flies in the face of all logic and common sense. Heck, the outcome of the All Star game is more determined by who decides they'll actually grace the league by showing up than anything. You could have a top ballplayer who would have hit the game winning home run stay home with a phantom injury just because he doesn't feel like attending. And this determines home field for the most important series of the year.

 

Plus the pitchers are obviously not going to stress themselves. It's just a glorified practice.

[CuseCubFan69]

I think the inter-league games have taken all the glitter of of the All Star game. It's just a Mariah Cary type game now.

[Flames24Rulz]

It's pretty much the worst idea Bud Selig has ever had. I nearly started a Rant about this last week. There is no other sport on the planet where home field advantage is more important.

 

Basketball?

[cheapseats]

 

it would be a shame for the Cubs to end the season with the best record and playing so well at home not to have the home field advantage....

 

As others have pointed out, home field advantage wasn't determined by best record in the past, anyway.

[Derwood]

It's pretty much the worst idea Bud Selig has ever had. I nearly started a Rant about this last week. There is no other sport on the planet where home field advantage is more important.

 

Basketball?

 

no.

[Mark_R]

It's pretty much the worst idea Bud Selig has ever had. I nearly started a Rant about this last week. There is no other sport on the planet where home field advantage is more important.

 

Basketball?

 

no.

 

You are wrong.

[fibro]

It's pretty much the worst idea Bud Selig has ever had. I nearly started a Rant about this last week. There is no other sport on the planet where home field advantage is more important.

 

Basketball?

 

no.

 

You are wrong.

 

Look at the winnig percentages of NBA teams at home it is definatley more important in the NBA.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Derwood's talking about the structure of the game. In basketball some teams will have better winning percentages at home than others, or have a better crowd to contribute to that. In baseball, the home team always has the advantage of the last at bat, regardless of their quality.

[chuckywang]

Derwood's talking about the structure of the game. In basketball some teams will have better winning percentages at home than others, or have a better crowd to contribute to that. In baseball, the home team always has the advantage of the last at bat, regardless of their quality.

 

Eh, that's probably not as big of an advantage as people think. Every team gets the same number of outs, and hence, the same number of chances to score runs.

 

Before this year, I've never heard of home-field advantage being so pronounced.

[snoodmonger]

I think you could argue that each stadium having its own unique quirks and dimensions also makes home field advantage more important in baseball than any other sport.

[Derwood]

Derwood's talking about the structure of the game. In basketball some teams will have better winning percentages at home than others, or have a better crowd to contribute to that. In baseball, the home team always has the advantage of the last at bat, regardless of their quality.

 

that is what i mean.

 

and the homecourt in the NBA is more about ref's being extremely biased towards the home teams than anything else

[Fro]

Yeah, the home court/field effect in basketball (all forms) and college FB is gigantic. Massive impact on officiating and momentum.

 

Home field doesn't really seem to determine the ump's calls at all in baseball, and in normal years there's not a big edge in MLB (this year is a huge exception).

[David]

It still determines home field for the WS. Incredibly STUPID move by Selig.

 

Especially after this

 

 

That game was the reason WHY they did it.

 

 

I couldn't care less about this because the alternating years method that they employed before this was just about as dumb.

[David]

Derwood is right. Baseball is the only major sport where the home team has an inherent & significant advantage built into the rules.