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Originally Posted by RMc
I understand that you're trying to create a baseball version of the Soccer World Cup, but having baseball teams playing single games just doesn't work: soccer is played once a week, while baseball is played every day.
I'd have the qualifying rounds at least a double round-robin, probably 4x, with the semifinals a best-of-5 and the championship a best-of-7. Then you'd greatly reduce chances of the Canadians winning at all, let alone twice in a row.  |
The Semifinals and Finals are done EXACTLY the same as the World Baseball Classic. And the only difference in mine is that the Pool Play is round-robin rather than Double-elimination. And it's done that way in the Baseball World Cup, the Olympics and Little League WS. So it must work on some level. Your way is not realistic.
I am not a soccer fan, so I'm not striving to make it more like soccer. I'm RE-creating the Baseball World Cup, which has existed since 1938, and happens to be similar to the soccer World Cup.