The Wild Card Hurts Baseball's Best Teams

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		Home Tech/Media Finance Markets Politics Strategy Entertainment Advertising Retail Sports Life Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Wild Card Hurts Baseball's Best Teams With the Washington Nationals eliminated from the playoffs, it is now just three times in 18 years (16.7%) in which the best regular season team won the World Series. In the 18 prior years, 33.3% (6) of the best teams in the regular season won it all. And while the average number of wins for the regular season champs is nearly unchanged (101.6 pre-Wild Card, 101.8 post-Wild Card), the average number of regular season wins for the World Series champs has fallen from 97.1 prior to the Wild Card to 94.6 since the Wild Card was introduced. Here's a look at how the regular season champs compare to the World Series champs since 1975. Years in red indicate seasons in which the regular season champ also won the World Series... Data via Baseball-Reference.com. 1981 and 1994 (strike-shortened seasons) were excluded from the data. Read » Also On Sports Page Today: This Blocked Shot-Dunk Combo Might Be The Most Amazing 20 Seconds Of Basketball You'll See All Year RadioShack, Trek, Anheuser-Busch, And Other Sponsors Dump Lance Armstrong Advertisement SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Cleveland Browns Sold For A Disappointing $1 Billion SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Andrew Luck's Career Is Off To A Better Start Than Peyton Manning's SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Red Sox Were Baseball's Most Inefficient Team In 2012 Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Sports Page RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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