World Series Tiebreaker?
Aug 1, 2011 14:05:11 GMT -5
Post by Ben (Rays GM) on Aug 1, 2011 14:05:11 GMT -5
We can't control who Yahoo decides is the "winner" of the World Series. If the World Series ends in a tie, Yahoo will claim that one team or the other won based on Yahoo's own tiebreaker rules. Unfortunately, Yahoo's tiebreaker rules are completely irrelevant in this case. Luckily for us, however, once it comes to the end of the World Series, we don't need to care what Yahoo says. We can crown a World Champion here at Proboards and give them the 5% discount based on whatever tiebreaker we want.
But the more Brian, Jesse and I thought about it, the more all three of us realized that all tiebreakers are kind of arbitrary when it comes down to it. The three of us did not like the idea that a team could lose the world series based on an arbitrary tiebreaker. So we all feel that if there's a tie, we'd rather see the teams crowned co-champions and give both teams the 5% discount.
But this is a pretty important decision, and we feel it should be up the league. So, while the three of us want to make it clear that we all prefer the idea of co-champions, I'm asking you to make your opinion known as well.
If the league decides that they don't like the idea of co-champions and would rather have some sort of tiebreaker, we'll need ideas for what that tiebreaker is going to be, because we haven't been able to think of anything that we think would be fair yet. We welcome your suggestions. But if we can't find a favorable tiebreaker, then we may just have to crown co-champions anyway, so let's hear some ideas!
But the more Brian, Jesse and I thought about it, the more all three of us realized that all tiebreakers are kind of arbitrary when it comes down to it. The three of us did not like the idea that a team could lose the world series based on an arbitrary tiebreaker. So we all feel that if there's a tie, we'd rather see the teams crowned co-champions and give both teams the 5% discount.
But this is a pretty important decision, and we feel it should be up the league. So, while the three of us want to make it clear that we all prefer the idea of co-champions, I'm asking you to make your opinion known as well.
If the league decides that they don't like the idea of co-champions and would rather have some sort of tiebreaker, we'll need ideas for what that tiebreaker is going to be, because we haven't been able to think of anything that we think would be fair yet. We welcome your suggestions. But if we can't find a favorable tiebreaker, then we may just have to crown co-champions anyway, so let's hear some ideas!