Playoff expansion

[Seattle Mariners]

In real life I hate playoff expansions but in fantasy world I think it makes sense.

In an effort to keep more teams trying to stay actively competetive, I propose a 2 team expansion to the playoffs.

Current system allows the 6 winners and 2 wild cards from each league.

As it stands now, once you get 10th in the standings, the mountain to climb is already steep.

This basically makes middle of the pack teams go into sell mode sooner than they probably need to or should.

Adding an extra double header series to expand the playoffs by 2 teans (1 from each league) should help keep more teams in a win now state, instead of determining in May/June that they are already done.

Open to suggestions, criticisms, or further input.

[New York Mets]

I get your point but like the purist approach trying to mimic MLB play so would prefer things to stay that way. In order to keep as many teams involved as long as possible we might want to consider pushing more doubleheaders towards the end of the regular season. A number of teams is basically out of the race at the end of May - sometimes because of bad luck in terms of SP stacking, injuries, rainouts especially when those doubleheaders were played in April/May. More doubleheaders in June/July would lengthen the season in terms of competition and lead to a more balanced schedule. Bad (or good) play in April/May is weighted too heavily with the current schedule (now the final doubleheaders are played on June 6). Also the trade deadline would be later in the year leading to more entertainment for all of us.

[STL Cardinals]

No need for expansion. My team is average at best and is 10 games out of playoffs. Feels about right. More teams in H2H playoffs means more likelihood flukes occur.

[Minnesota Twins]

I joined the league liking that it did its best to copy MLB as much as possible.

If MLB expands playoffs id be open to it, if not I’d like to stick with replicating real life as much as possible.