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RMc · 10-20-2008, 10:36 AM

The Semifinals and Finals are done EXACTLY the same as the World Baseball Classic.

So far, anyway.

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? They do it that way largely due to the fact the people who run the tournaments are cheap and lazy. You could easily do a double-elimination, best-of-three championship format in any of these tournaments, but the people who run them don't want to be bothered.

Your way is not realistic.

Er, why not? I thought the idea was to crown a "world champion", and you can't do that by playing a tiny handful of games. Baseball is not football, or soccer.

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.

The real way to do it, actually, is to have the national teams play a mini-season, perhaps a month or so, over the winter, followed by best-of-seven playoff series...the way real baseball is played. Then you'd get more realistic results. I mean, Canada winning the World Cup twice in a row? Please.

Look, I'm not saying this isn't a good idea. It's just that you have to tweak it a bit so that the best teams win. That's the whole idea, isn't it?

10-20-2008, 10:36 AM	#47 (permalink)
RMc Major Leagues Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 431 Thanked 9x in 6 posts	The Semifinals and Finals are done EXACTLY the same as the World Baseball Classic. So far, anyway. 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? They do it that way largely due to the fact the people who run the tournaments are cheap and lazy. You could easily do a double-elimination, best-of-three championship format in any of these tournaments, but the people who run them don't want to be bothered. Your way is not realistic. Er, why not? I thought the idea was to crown a "world champion", and you can't do that by playing a tiny handful of games. Baseball is not football, or soccer. 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. The real way to do it, actually, is to have the national teams play a mini-season, perhaps a month or so, over the winter, followed by best-of-seven playoff series...the way real baseball is played. Then you'd get more realistic results. I mean, Canada winning the World Cup twice in a row? Please. Look, I'm not saying this isn't a good idea. It's just that you have to tweak it a bit so that the best teams win. That's the whole idea, isn't it? __________________ "We're all behind our baseball team..."