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With the Mets and the Braves having such good records, there exists a reasonable possibility that despite being a “wild card” team, they could enter the NLCS with the best record.
Consider this scenario:
-Mets are first wild card (#4 seed)
-Dodgers lose in division series (to Mets)
-Cardinals win other division series (as #3 seed).
Who gets home field advantage in the LCS?
Mets would have (1) the better season record and (2) won the season series with STL.
I found a 2018 article from old friend Ted Berg indicating that a Wild Card team could never have home field advantage in the LCS:
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/10/its-dumb-that-mlb-wild-card-teams-cant-have-home-field-advantage-in-the-lcs
It's unclear if any of this changed for 2022, however.
Note that this rule did give the Mets home field advantage in the 2015 NLCS. (Not that it really mattered, given the sweep).
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