(Tom Tango) KBO a une structure de bye dramatique : leur structure en séries éliminatoires est #5 contre #4, le gagnant joue le #3, le gagnant joue le #2, le gagnant joue le #1. La tête de série n°1 a effectivement 2 semaines de congé entre la fin de la saison régulière et le début de ses séries éliminatoires. Depuis 2001 : la tête de série n°1 a remporté la série coréenne 20 fois sur 23
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Par LogicalHarm
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But I was told by John Smoltz that days off ruin baseball.
Ladder format. I use it in all my OOTP fictional leagues.
The league would love to have their number 1 teams sit for 2 weeks not generating any revenue
So the number 5 seed has to win 4 series
The 1 seed only has to win one?
Which league is it that gives the upper seed one free win in the series rather than a full bye? I think it might be Taiwan (or I’m totally making shit up lol). American fans would probably hate it in the same way as ties, free base runner in extras, etc., but I always thought that was an interesting concept.
yep. it’s like a boss structure in a game, you are the wild card team and you win that game, advance to the next boss, then the next boss, etc, then the final boss at the Korean Series. It’s quite odd but I like it.
Wonder what it would be like with a more « normal » playoff system though
I wonder if this is the standard format for playoffs in Korea? Their League of Legends league (LCK) ran the same ladder format for a long time before switching to an awful pseudo-double-elimination one.
Speaking of, can you imagine how long baseball playoffs would take with double elim lmao
So they run their baseball playoffs like the LCK playoffs? Or is it better said the LCK playoffs run like KBO playoffs? Either way, that #1 seed is huge.
I noticed 3 of 4 top seeds won game 1 this year and no one said anything about it. Wonder if all those people worried that the extra rest days were a disadvantage last year even noticed
It just means the Regular Season is super important.