Cards Win!
Sep. 27th, 2022 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperSo here's your baseball word problem for the day:
The Cardinals had a magic number of three entering tonight's game with the Brewers -- that is to say, any combination of Cardinals wins and Brewers losses totaling three would clinch the division for the Cards. One game was played today, which the Cardinals won, and the Cardinals clinched the division championship. How did this happen since there was one Cardinals win and one Brewers loss and one plus one continues to be two in this particular space-time continuum? (And two is less than three, just for completeness.)
And the answer is:
MLB changed the rules this year with the addition of more wild card teams so that there are no head-to-head playoff games in case of ties, even if one of the tied teams fails to make the playoffs as a result. With a win tonight, the Cardinals clinched a tie for best record in the Central with the Brewers, but they *also* clinched the season series against the Brewers, which gave the Cardinals the tie-breaker over the Brewers, which meant that a tie goes to the Cardinals.
Hooray for New Math!
And hooray for the Cardinals, 2022 NL Central Division champs. :)
The Cardinals had a magic number of three entering tonight's game with the Brewers -- that is to say, any combination of Cardinals wins and Brewers losses totaling three would clinch the division for the Cards. One game was played today, which the Cardinals won, and the Cardinals clinched the division championship. How did this happen since there was one Cardinals win and one Brewers loss and one plus one continues to be two in this particular space-time continuum? (And two is less than three, just for completeness.)
And the answer is:
MLB changed the rules this year with the addition of more wild card teams so that there are no head-to-head playoff games in case of ties, even if one of the tied teams fails to make the playoffs as a result. With a win tonight, the Cardinals clinched a tie for best record in the Central with the Brewers, but they *also* clinched the season series against the Brewers, which gave the Cardinals the tie-breaker over the Brewers, which meant that a tie goes to the Cardinals.
Hooray for New Math!
And hooray for the Cardinals, 2022 NL Central Division champs. :)