NFT: MLB fans - unbalanced schedule

so im sure mets arent complaining about them not being in april.I think its in part because of potential for rainouts in april

18 times each. Far more than any other team. You gave to do then early.

the schedules are far too imbalanced. no reason for 18 games in division and 6 or 7 out. Would rather have 12 in division games and 9 out (or however the math would work).

stop scheduling games between leagues while the rules are different

12 and 9 sounds better.

during the second week of the season having to hit in an NL park. Great. Awesome. Really exciting. Great job Selig. Er, Manfred. Uh, whatever used car salesman is running this fuckin shitshow.

In comment 13442074 JayBinQueens said:

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stop scheduling games between leagues while the rules are different

With the Astros move to the AL, there are now 15 teams in each league and so there has to be an interleague series at all times. It's much better than having a division in the NL of 6 teams and one in the AL of 4 teams.

It's making teams play X amount of games in a style they aren't built for (making the NL use a bench player in the starting lineup/taking the best hitter (usually) out of the AL team lineup).

Division teams 11 games rotating the extra home game every other year.

Other league teams 10 games and have 5 game series both home and away.

That leaves 18 interleague games or one series a month.

play each other in the World Series every year and half of those games use the DH and the other half don't. Teams play 20 interleague games . Before the Astros moved to the AL, there was still interleague play. AL teams were playing 18 interleague games, and in the NL, four teams would play 18 games, and the other twelve teams would play 15 games.

If anything, this new setup makes the schedule even more balanced in that NL teams play an equal number of interleague games.

Also, it makes far more sense to have divisions of equal numbers given that baseball has the fewest number of playoff teams of any of the major sports with guaranteed slots for division winners. A team in the NL shouldn't have to beat five other teams to win the division when a team in the AL could only have to beat three other teams. That doesn't make any sense.

AL East is far and away the best division in baseball and they beat on each other all year long, while crappy AL Central and AL West play weak schedules getting a better chance of a good record at season's end - thus a better shot at the WC spots.