This season, Major League Baseball (MLB) has changed several rules that can change the flow of the game. Apart from fragmentary changes, we are trying to provide new attractions by varying the number of matches between teams. 슬롯사이트

As is well known, MLB differs in the number of games between teams within the same district. So far, teams from the same district have played 19 games each season. In other words, until last year, each team had to play 76 games, half of the total number of games (162 games) for the season with teams in the same district. However, from this year, teams from the same district will have to play 14 matches, so only 56 matches are required. Then, what kind of matchup will the match with the same district team change to?

First of all, teams from other districts in the same league will play 6 games each. There are 10 league teams excluding teams from the same district, so a total of 60 games. The 46 games lacking in 162 games are filled through interleagues with teams in other leagues. Previously, the MLB secretariat adjusted interleague matchups, and matchups changed every year, mainly catching American League (AL) East Division and National League (NL) West Division or NL Central Division and AL West Division matches. However, starting this year, the number of interleague games is expected to increase significantly from 20 to 46 each season as the teams compete against all teams in other leagues three games each. In this situation, the ‘home and away’ method is not established, so they visit the opponent’s stadium in turns every year.

What is not left out here is the ‘natural rivalry’, which means traditional local rivalry. For example, teams such as the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs, and the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics face each other. The main reason for doing this is to play against teams from other leagues that are not easily seen, so that superstars such as Shohei Ohtani (LA Angels) and Aaron Judge (New York Yankees) have a chance to see them at the home team’s stadium at least once every two years. is to provide Considering that the interleague spectator mobilization rate has been higher than regular matches so far, it is a change that can be considered sufficiently.

Here, I suddenly remembered the KBO League regular season and postseason formations. Professional baseball plays 144 games, and each team plays 16 games each with the other 9 teams. And the top 5 teams advance to the postseason, and the four-stage vertical postseason, including the wild card (WC) match, semi-playoff (junior PO) playoff (PO) and Korean Series (KS), has been maintained for quite a long time. Several media have already pointed out the irrationality of the current postseason (PS) system last fall. No matter how much the advantage is given to the first place team in the regular season, taking a long break for a month and reorganizing the front line is a sloped playing field. The team that has risen from the lower level has no choice but to play an unfair game.

It is a system that has been going on for over 30 years. I guess now is not the time to change. Isn’t it time to think about not only the PS structure but also the regular season structure? After dividing the league into two based on distance by region, if you increase the number of games with teams in the same league and decrease the number of games with teams in other leagues, the travel time for each team will decrease. There may be problems, but they can be corrected. The 3rd place team in both leagues will play a one-game wild card match, and the winning team will play a semi-playoff with the 2nd place team in both leagues with a lower win rate in a best-of-three match. You can continue to tweak the series like this to create more quirky PS brackets.

Of course, this scenario is just one example. The important thing is that I think the time has come to seriously think about the composition of the PS and the flow of the regular season, which are constantly being pointed out, and to collect a wide range of opinions.