Schedule+Playoffs

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Regular Season

Each team will play 65 games.

1x15 Interleague games
3x10 League games
5x4 Divisional games

The All-Star Game week is merged with the one that follows it.
The opening short week is merged with the first full week.

Each team plays 3 games per week except in the 2 merged periods listed above (which contain only divisional games) and the final 3 weeks of the regular season all of which have 4 games.

Standings Tie-breakers (within division)

1. H2H record vs teams tied with
2. Divisional record
3. Most wins
4. Most divisional wins
5. Most category points
6. Most HR
7. Lowest ERA

Conference tie-breakers are as above except steps 2 and 4 are skipped. In a multi-way tie where 2 teams are from the same division step 1 is applied to those teams only in the first instance.

Playoffs

In each league the three division winners plus three wild card teams (next best based on regular season record) will make the playoffs. If a matchup ends in a tie then the higher seed advances. If the World Series is tied then the team that won the regular season game will be declared the champion. The second tie-breaker is overall regular season record and the third is most regular season wins. After that it reverts to step 5 onward as listed above.

First Round:

#1 seed - Best record - Bye
#2 seed - 2nd best record (must be a division winner) - Bye
#3 Seed vs #6 seed
#4 seed vs #5 seed

The 3rd division winner can fall no lower than the 4th seed.

Second Round:

#1 plays winner of #4 vs #5
#2 plays winner of #3 vs #6

ALCS/NLCS:

Second round winners face each other

World Series:

AL Champ vs NL Champ