https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/mlb-plotting-playoff-expansion-with-
reality-tv-twist/
https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1226993415537090560
在MLB on Fox的推特以及纽邮的文章看到看到 (引用自Joel Sherman)
大联盟官方正在研议新的季后赛规则，其中包括：
1.每联盟各取七队打季后赛
2.第一轮取三战两胜制
3.每个联盟的第一种子免打第一轮
4.成绩较佳的队伍可以挑对手打，例如以下这段：
In this concept, the team with the best record in each league would receive a
bye to avoid the wild-card round and go directly to the Division Series. The
two other division winners and the wild card with the next best record would
each host all three games in a best-of-three wild-card round. So the bottom
three wild cards would have no first-round home games.
The division winner with the second-best record in a league would then get
the first pick of its opponent from those lower three wild cards, then the
other division winner would pick, leaving the last two wild cards to play
each other.
To use the AL last season as an example, the Astros with the best record
would have received the bye. The Yankees, with the second-best record, would
have had the choice to pick from among the Rays, Indians and Red Sox. Boston
had the worst record of that group. Would the Yanks pick them or avoid the
baggage of a series with their rival? It would create a ton of strategy and
interest, and this is what MLB wants to sell. The Twins would then pick next
as the other division winner, and then the A’s with the best wild-card
record would play the team not chosen by the Yankees or Twins.
“以去年为例，假设美联七支队伍打季后赛，太空人战绩最佳故免打首轮；战绩第二佳
的洋基可于光芒、印地安人以及红袜间挑一队作为第一轮的对手；接着轮到战绩第三佳
的分区冠军双城挑对手。至于没被洋基双城挑到的队伍就和战绩最佳的外卡队伍运动家
对阵。”
这样其实也或多或少解决一战定生死的风险。而且因为首轮三战两胜制，分区冠军享有
此轮所有主场优势，还可挑对手，对球队来说还是有拼分区冠军的诱因。这理论上也不
太会有G163了。