Major League Baseball Must Make A Big Change

In the name of fairness, Major League Baseball must alter the way contesting teams in the World Series are chosen.

Like basketball, football and hockey, baseball has a regular season, followed by a series of playoffs that determine the sport’s ultimate champion.

Given the intense physical nature of football, its playoffs involve single games. But for basketball and hockey, each round of playoffs involves a best-of-seven series, in which a team must win four games in order to advance.

Baseball is different, however, and this episode of What’s Ahead lays out how its playoff system is perverse, given the nature of the game. This post-season saw several inferior teams advance at the expense of far better ones. For instance, five National League teams had better regular season win-loss records than the Philadelphia Phillies—three of them by wide margins.

To do justice to the game, the current system must be changed.