=roger_that post_id=111684 time=1666346833 user_id=128] Are we overthinking this a little bit? Seems to me that any playoff system will have an inferior (85-win) team beating its superiors a decent chunk of the time, and superior (100+) win teams will get clobbered in the first round once in a while. That's why they play the games, etc. Further, some years this will occur grossly, with multiple superior teams getting beaten by inferior teams. If you don't want this to happen, stop watching the playoffs. That danger is inherent to the concept of playoffs. And actually I have stopped watching. Once the Mets are out of it, my interest in MLB goes down to the levels of interest in watching paint dry. Maybe that's why I reacted so strongly and so bitterly to the Mets getting clobbered. I wanted a few more weeks of baseball, and I felt entitled to it.