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Originally Posted by RMc
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?
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realistic= how it's done in the real world
How you want it done is not how it's done in the real world, therefore it's not realistic
You are never going to get the best players in the world, aka professionals, to play that many games outside of their professional teams. That's how guys get hurt and these teams have waaaaay too much money invested in the players. I would be really upset if Chien Ming Wang or Joba or anyone else was playing a "mini-season" in which he was going to start 3-5 games in additional to playing a full Major League schedule. It would never happen.
You keep saying baseball is not soccer. Exactly! Baseball takes much more of a toll on your body and its just IMPOSSIBLE to play it year-round. Pitchers need rest, they can't start 30 games in the regular season and then go into another international competition that lasts through November and December (or February and March). Plus they are away from their families all season, not one player would want to do that outside of their regualr season. So many players either have surgery after the season or are injured but playing through it.
If you disagree, fine, but it's my dynasty not yours. Do your own with your own ideas. But the respectful, mature thing to do would have been to either PM me, stay quiet, or say "hey mattymo, did you ever think about doing it differently", not tell me it doesn't work.
But really, in how many leagues does the true "best team" win? Some would still argue the Angels and Cubs were the best teams in their individual leagues and they DO HAVE a best-of series. How often have Wild-Card teams won the world series? Super bowl? How often does a non-#1 seed win the NCAA tournament? What seed was the College baseball champion? If the best team on paper won every championship there would be no point in watching.
Realistic results=the impossible happening. Is Tampa Bay realistic? It must be because it happened. I'd consider it pretty realistic if the 1909 Canadian team beat the United States. The U.S. has a bunch of stars who really don't give a hoot because they aren't getting paid and they just finished a full season, and they know that despite whatever happens in the World Cup, they are still the best country with the best players. Then you have Canada, who is the United States' "little brother", playing for pride, wanting to beat the might Americans. Indifference vs. Passion. Sounds kind of like the 2006 World Baseball Classic, no? THAT'S REALISTIC.