Radical Baseball

Stimulating, provocative, sometimes whimsical new concepts that challenge traditional baseball orthodoxy. Note: Anonymous comments will not be published. Copyright Kenneth Matinale

About Me

My photo
Kenneth Matinale
Nice guy.
View my complete profile

Labels

"500" home runs (24) 1961 HR race (67) 3 Home Run games (12) All City: New York (37) Attendance (16) Conduct (382) Constitutional (39) DiMaggio (50) Hall of Fame (118) Home Run rates (62) Home Runs (467) Home Runs career (11) Home/Road (95) Jackie Robinson (26) Jeter (53) Mariano Rivera (16) Mickey Mantle (250) Negro Leagues (18) Philosophy (337) Righty/Lefty (109) Rules (306) Ruth (191) Safety (33) Salary Cap (22) Signs (50) Stats (774) Strike Zone (18) Tactics (88) WAR (29) Williams (47) World Series (66)

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Radical playoffs: a few ideas.


How about selecting playoff teams by poll?

http://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-about-selecting-playoff-teams-by.html

Let top team pick its playoff opponent.
http://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2011/04/let-top-team-pick-its-playoff-opponent.html

Put all teams in the MLB playoffs.

http://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2009/12/put-all-teams-in-mlb-playoffs.html

NFL has the solution to MLB's playoff problem

http://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2011/01/nfl-has-solution-to-mlbs-playoff.html

BCS (Baseball Championship Series) or March Madness.

http://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2011/10/bcs-baseball-championship-series-or.html

One month seasons!

http://radicalbaseball.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-month-seasons.html
Posted by Kenneth Matinale at Saturday, February 02, 2013
Labels: Rules

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home

Featured Post

8 batters and starting each inning with top of order fix two dumbest things on the field.

Each of these two improvements will bring up the better batters much more often. Combined, they would improve MLB immensely. 8, not 9, batte...

Search Radical Baseball

Radical Baseball Archive

Popular Posts last 7 days.

  • Nolan Ryan, Tom House and steroids.
    Nolan Ryan could have been using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (PED), not just late in his career, but also in the 1970s.  ...
  • Salaries: Mantle and Maris, the M & M Boys of 1961.
    Roger Maris hit 100 home runs in his first two seasons with the Yankees, 1960 and 1961, and was American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (...
  • Switch hitting by lefty throwers: J.T. Snow and Lance Berkman.
    J.T. Snow? J.T was a lefty batter, wasn't he? Yes, starting in 1999 but J.T. Snow played his earlier seasons as a switch hitter. We'...
  • Randy Johnson released the ball closer to home plate than at least 99.9% of pitchers.
    Randy Johnson is the greatest pitcher taller than 6 feet 7 inches of all time.  That's it.  It doesn't seem like such a big deal, co...
  • First base hitting 2024: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #1.
    https://stathead.com/tiny/of2gn For single seasons, in 2024 , At least 502 Plate Appearances, Played at 1B , in the regular season, requiri...
  • Dodgers 100 years ago 1924: Brooklyn close second to New York Giants. Compared to 2024 World Series champion LA Dodgers.
    Winner is first, on the left. 2024 4-1 Los Angeles Dodgers (98-64, NL) vs. New York Yankees (94-68, AL) Let's juxtapose the 2024 Dodger...
  • MVP from losing teams: Mike Trout and five others, one twice (Ernie Banks).
    Yesterday the Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards were announced: American League (AL): Mike Trout , Angels 74-88 National League (NL): Kri...
  • Bats/Throws: summary
    February 2013 posts, which include many graphs, deal almost exclusively with batter handedness in baseball, which is not symmetrical like fo...
  • Number 7 on the Yankees in 1951.
    Mickey Mantle #6. Mickey Mantle scoring, greeted by Cliff Mapes #7. Mantle homered in an  exhibition  game against the Brooklyn Dodgers at ...
  • Yankees: one championship in last 24 years. A fish rots from the head.
    Payroll/Wins: Cleveland very good. White Sox VERY bad. Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Cleveland has won it's division and spent only a li...
Theme images by klosfoto. Powered by Blogger.