So best record is fair, now? The Celtics beat up on the weak Eastern Conference this year and got home court in the NBA finals. Same could happen every year in baseball. Why not use league vs. league interleague record? This way the stronger league gets HFA. The AL is clearly a better league this year and interleague proved it. Let them have HFA. would that be the same Boston Celtics team that went 25-5 against the West last year? yeah, don't let facts get in the way of your arguments I think the point is a valid one though. Imaginary good team X when put in the NL West could go 100-62 and get the best record. Imaginary good team X when put in the AL Esst could go 92-70 and get the 2nd or third best record. Same team, but the schedule surely plays a huge part. If you take AL inter league record vs NL inter league record you still bring up the issue of having other teams decide who get home field advantage. If the Cubs go undefeated against the NL teams lose all or most of their games making the AL have more wins. This doesn't tell me that the Cubs are worse than the AL it tells me that the rest of the NL sucks. I think maybe BCS style rating system for who gets home field that takes into strength of schedule and how you do against it or since that may be way to much to decide home field (it probably is) maybe you could do how the teams did head to head (if they played) or if they didn't play how they did in inter league. And eve this would be flawed. The one thing I know is though, you can't have it decided by an exhibition game where a player from a crappy team could decide it and having it every other year seems fair on the surface but it really isn't either.