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I'm going to argue that we don't have any sort of meaningful play during the last week of the season. Guys get benched, especially on good teams, even when they don't have injuries. That makes it tough because then we have essentially 5 weeks of playoffs. 1st WC, 2nd WC, LDS, LCS, and WS - and that is making the WS only a week. It makes it difficult because I really don't think it makes sense to have 6 weeks on playoffs. We could also use the last week of the regular seasons stats as the "new" wildcard, without having a tie breaker. Then that leads to further tie breakers...it gets muddled to say the least.
We are doing the same thing as last year...which to the best of my knowledge was no games on final week of the season. If I am mistaken, then (and I know Rob was in favor of this) then we could implement it - as the schedule has been fluid thus far and it is still early
I would support the addition of a WC spot iff it does not prolong the playoffs.
One way to simulate the WC playoff game is to look at the highest daily score of the two WC teams in the final week of regular season, and have that as the tie breaker / playoff game.