Playoff Baseball!

[Edgy MD]

The Mets just pulled ahead of the Padres by a single percentage point!

TEAM	W	L	PCT	GB
Atlanta	51	40	.560	+4.5
St. Louis	48	44	.522	+1.0
METS	47	45	.511	---
San Diego	49	47	.510	---

[Benjamin Grimm]

Of course I want them to make the postseason, but my shorter term goal, for the remainder of the month, is for them to stay close enough to prevent a selloff.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Also... I guess this means we have a magic number right now! (But no, I'm not going to calculate it. It's definitely too soon for that.)

[Edgy MD]

Also, since tiebreakers are now in play, the Mets are 3-0 against the Padres, needing to win one of the remaining four games against them, August 22–25, in San Diego, in order to clinch the season series.

Get your tickets now!!!!

[kcmets]

Two games over .500 and going to the dance. What a country!!

[Benjamin Grimm]

And they're 3-2 against the Cardinals. Does that mean there's a makeup game still to be played?

[stevejrogers]

And they're 3-2 against the Cardinals. Does that mean there's a makeup game still to be played?

Yes. Monday August 5th in Saint Louie 5:15est.

In between a weekend series (2nd-4th) in Anaheim, mid week set in Denver (6th-8th), and the trip finishes with a weekend in Seattle (9th-11th)

[Benjamin Grimm]

So winning that August 5 game can have extra importance if the Mets finish in a tie with the Cardinals.

[Chad ochoseis]

In the event that the Mets and Cardinals split the season series, next tiebreaker is intradivision record, even though they're in different divisions. Mets are currently 16-12 in the East and Cardinals are 13-12 in the Central.

[Edgy MD]

MLB Playoff Tiebreakers

1. Head-to-Head Record
2. Intradivision Record 1
3. Interdivision Record
4. Last Half of Intraleague Games 2
5. Last Half of Intraleague Games Plus One 3

1 It's a little late in the day to be making this complaint, but this seems a little nutty (not that the whole thing isn't a little nutty). The Wild Card is a league-wide contest, so shouldn't your league record have primacy over your division record?

2 This represents your record against teams in your league over the second half of your schedule against them. So, say you play 116 games against NL teams, then this would be your record over the last 58 of those games. (This also seems like a silly way to settle a tie.)

3 This is the same as above, but your record would include the last 59 of those games. If the two teams are tied after that, then it goes to 60 games, etc.

[Chad ochoseis]

They were running short on ways to settle ties. Though once you start focusing on the second-half record, why worry about making it intraleague? You might as well just look at the whole record for the last 81 games.

Also, if two teams finish with the same record and the same intradivision record, the implication is that the team with the worse interleague record wins, since to get the better intraleague record, they'd have to have the worse interleague record.

[Edgy MD]

And yes, I realize that we routinely misuse the terms "percentage" and "percentage point," and they really pulled in front by single permillage point or something.

[Edgy MD]

As unlikely as it may seem that the Mets equal the the Phillies' record over the next six games, I just want to point out how very logically offensive and unjust it is that the first tiebreaker for a division championship is head-to-head record between the two teams.

What you're competing for is a division title. If, in designating that title winner, you can't give primacy to the intradivisional record over all else besides overall record, then nothing makes sense, up is down, hot is cold, and Bugs Bunny is an un-American menace.