Quote from: bomber beetle on Today at 01:39:48 PMThere must be team owners who believe they need these changes to have any chance of making a profit.
Reversing the decisions would involve more casualties than just Johnston. The league would not survive these casualties.
Quote from: Tecno on Today at 06:45:17 AMWell, it can all work out if this season Shay is moved up to legit backup to MLB (or WILL?) who sees 1/4 to 1/3 the snaps a game. Then he starts in '27. If he can be even 3/4 as good as Singleton then it's a win.
If Shay's turns into a bust, then we really Shay-t the bed.
Quote from: bluengold204 on Today at 01:06:00 PMI don't think you really understand the format at all...
I think you are in the mindset that these are mostly division matchups when they are not. The only guaranteed divisional matchups are what they call the 'Division Showdown' games, where the 1st place team plays the 2nd place team in their respected divisions. All other matchups (the "Play Ins", Round 2, and Round 3) are based off of league standings not divisional standings.
It is not random how the playin seeding works and who hosts, you take the left over teams (from both divisions) that did not finish 1 and 2 in their divisions and seed them according to their season records they will be placed as seeds 5-8. The team with the best record will be Seed 5 and the team with the worst record will be 8 and thus play each other. The team with the second best record will become Seed 6 and the team with the second worst record will become Seed 7 and play each other. The teams with the higher seed will host.
Round 2 you will take the team that lost the Divisional Showdown games and play the winners of the Playin games. These teams will also be reseeded as well. For example in this round say the loser of the West Divisional Showdown now has the better record than the loser of the east Divisional Showdown and Seed 8 team won and advanced. They would then play each other, even if that Seed 8 team is from the east. This round is not division dependent anymore.
Round 3 similar the winners of the Divisional Showdown will play the winners from round 2. Again lets say the West Divisional Showdown winner has the better record than the East Divisional Showdown and by some miracle that Seed 8 team from the Playin is running the table and won their round 2 matchup. The West divisional showdown winner would play them, even if it is an eastern division team. Again this round is not division dependent.
If you stop and think about it, the format is actually pretty good. I honestly like it better than our current format as winning 1 game to advance to the final is kind of lame and could create some cross divisional matchups that we typically wouldn't see.
Quote from: Tecno on Today at 06:57:40 AM3down says OTT was a flat no on us getting #1 overall. They wanted Vacaro no matter what. So we tried to get the hometown boy, but couldn't pull it off.
Quote from: Tecno on Today at 07:55:06 AMOf course there is. You could fire Johnston tomorrow, have the BoG or next commish say "we made a mistake", and undo the GP/110YL/playoff changes. Just blame it all on Johnston and say he went rogue.
Problem solved. Heck, even Johnston could come out and say he got it all wrong, but of course that's impossible for that self-toot-sniffer.