Re: _wild card_, Alan Hess wrote to all  on 29 Sep 96:
 AH> The division winner that plays the wild card team in the first round
 AH> should either get the first three games of the series at home, or get 
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 AH> first two games and the fifth game (if needed) at home.  There should be
 AH> some advantage for the team that finished first.  *adh*
There is.  If the series goes five games they get three of them at home.
I don't like the current format much, but I would like it even less if they 
made it a 3-2 format.  That's too much of an advantage for the division 
winner, and the wildcard team's fans might never get a game in their park.  I 
know you'll say that's too bad, they should have won their division.  But why 
even have the playoffs if you're going to give one team a big handicap, 
almost ensuring that they'll lose?
The best solution, clearly, would be a 2-2-1 format, or better yet, a 2-3-2 
format (for a seven game series -- five game series suck).  But I'm sure they 
don't want to stretch the playoffs out anymore than they have to.
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