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MLB's seeding/homefield policy since expanding the playoffs in 69 has been utter lunacy.I was just thinking about this. It makes no sense to seed 2nd place teams above wild card teams when you know there will be wild card teams with better records. Oh well its a weird year.
From 69-93, when there was only LCS and WS, homefield alternated by division league in all series. Having the best record did NOTHING tom give you homefield.
In 95, the first year of 3 divisions and WC, the Indians had the best record in baseball. In the ALDS, they faced Boston, who had the 2nd best record in the AL, and Boston had homefield. In the ALCS, they faced Seattle, who had the worst record of an AL playoff team, and Seattle had homefield.
I fail to understand how that could possibly happen repeatedly. You could literally have the Indians or Chicago have the 4th best record and be the 7 seed. Mindboggling.