wild card rules

[naptown cub]

I have it in the back of my mind that MLB changed the wild card rules so now that you can play a team in your division in the first round. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Does anyone know what the new rule is? Thanks - Naptown Cub

[Brian]

I have it in the back of my mind that MLB changed the wild card rules so now that you can play a team in your division in the first round. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Does anyone know what the new rule is? Thanks - Naptown Cub

 

Unless it happened after the end of last season then no it didn't happen. Because the D-Backs would have faced the Rockies but they didn't.

Edited July 18, 2008 by Brian

[Bote McBoteface]

I'm quite certain you still can't play a team in your division in the first round.

[UMFan83]

I don't think that is correct. I wish it was, but I don't think it is.

[Derwood]

More of Bud Selig's mission to not make anything simple or make sense in baseball

[David]

I think what you're thinking of is the home field rules for wild cards.

 

I could be wrong, but I think a wild card team can get HFA in a given series now if they have the better record of the two teams. Before, a wild card would never have home field (which is why the 2003 Cubs had HFA over the Marlins).

[Jon]

I'd be pretty surprised if the rule ever changed. You might as well call it the Yankees vs. Red Sox ALCS rule. MLB would hate it if those two teams ended up facing each other in the divisional series instead of the championship series.

[rawaction]

I think what you're thinking of is the home field rules for wild cards.

 

I could be wrong, but I think a wild card team can get HFA in a given series now if they have the better record of the two teams. Before, a wild card would never have home field (which is why the 2003 Cubs had HFA over the Marlins).

 

The Marlins were the wildcard. The Cubs won the NL Central in 03. The Marlins had the better record, but the Cubs still had home field.

[David]

I think what you're thinking of is the home field rules for wild cards.

 

I could be wrong, but I think a wild card team can get HFA in a given series now if they have the better record of the two teams. Before, a wild card would never have home field (which is why the 2003 Cubs had HFA over the Marlins).

 

The Marlins were the wildcard. The Cubs won the NL Central in 03. The Marlins had the better record, but the Cubs still had home field.

 

 

Which is what I said... lol

[CubbieBum]

I have it in the back of my mind that MLB changed the wild card rules so now that you can play a team in your division in the first round. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Does anyone know what the new rule is? Thanks - Naptown Cub

 

that would just be a wild change; wild I tell ya

[rawaction]

I think what you're thinking of is the home field rules for wild cards.

 

I could be wrong, but I think a wild card team can get HFA in a given series now if they have the better record of the two teams. Before, a wild card would never have home field (which is why the 2003 Cubs had HFA over the Marlins).

 

The Marlins were the wildcard. The Cubs won the NL Central in 03. The Marlins had the better record, but the Cubs still had home field.

 

 

Which is what I said... lol

 

Haha. I completely read that wrong.......several times.