I know this is not the 1st comment on the present schedule but I don't think I have seen a specific alternative - so here is an option

division titles do not mean much when the schedule is balanced at 10 games per league opponent and 3 per non-league opponent - at present this is 18.52% of games

How about:
                  18 games against 3 divisional opponent  =  54
         8 games against 12 other league opponents  =   96
               3 games against 4 non- league opponent  =   12
                                                                        total games  162        this would be 1/3 of a teams games

Make the divisional title MEAN something

How about trashing interleague and adding 4 against your division mates?

10 x 12 league opponents = 120
14 x 3 divisionmates = 42

Gives you more control in your division without affecting the WC races(since the replaced games were "uneven" anyway). 

Rewards teams that are in a division with a tanker and penalizes teams in a division with non-tankers (as far as wildcard spots are concerned).

In theory, you'd think that this could help drive worlds towards preventing tanking.

In reality, you'll never eliminate it completely, and this would just serve to **** people off.

I agree.  But, under my suggestion, you're replacing games that aren't against the same competition anyway.    Now, maybe you're a NL team playing 6 games against a couple of tanking AL teams.    If I'm not in your division, I'm not getting those teams anyway.

If I play 14 games against a tanker in my division, I get 14 "free" wins.
If that tanker is in another division and I only play them 10 times, I only get 10 "free" wins.

It still rewards teams in the same division with a tanker.

can live with either option - but why have divisions if there is a balanced schedule - If balanced just take the 6 teams with the best record - make the division mean something if it is to be used to determine playoff teams

It's not really a balanced schedule.    Which is why my suggestion replaces the "unbalanced" games against division mates.

Smoel, if I play 2x3 game sets in interleague against tankers and you play zero, I'm getting 6 wins that you aren't anyway.

Nonetheless, makes rules against tanking and there's not really a problem.   We've got a really awesome race with 40 games left in Coop.   4 undecided spots, 10 teams within a few games of one another.

Not doing this type of scheduling because of tanking would be trying to remedy the symptom rather than the problem.  I would love to see an unbalanced schedule with heavy emphasis on divisional opponents, and let the worlds take care of tankers.

Posted by mhulshult on 12/13/2010 8:24:00 AM (view original):
Not doing this type of scheduling because of tanking would be trying to remedy the symptom rather than the problem.  I would love to see an unbalanced schedule with heavy emphasis on divisional opponents, and let the worlds take care of tankers.

amen - why I suggested the original option - win your division by beating your divisional rivals head to head

I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTE unbalanced schedules.  I wish MLB would fix their nonsense.  MLB's schedule is a truckload of horse crap.  I like the schedule exactly the way it is in HBD.

It's a little off topic, but here is what I'd like to see in MLB:

First, move Brewers back to AL Central and the Royals to the AL West, so all divisions have exactly 5 teams.
One 3-game series with all 14 opponents in the opposite league = 42 games
8 games against all 14 opponents in the same league = 112 games

Only 154 games, but that's fine.  Most of the pennant "races" are over by September anyway.

Posted by jimmystick on 12/17/2010 10:24:00 AM (view original):
It's a little off topic, but here is what I'd like to see in MLB:

First, move Brewers back to AL Central and the Royals to the AL West, so all divisions have exactly 5 teams.
One 3-game series with all 14 opponents in the opposite league = 42 games
8 games against all 14 opponents in the same league = 112 games

Only 154 games, but that's fine.  Most of the pennant "races" are over by September anyway.

So you would always have an interleague series in progress every day of the season?  How dumb.

And the Yankees should play the same number of games against Kansas City as they do against Boston?  How dumb.

jimmy has proven to be a 'tard of unreached heights in Hamilton.  The fact that he knows nothing of MLB isn't much of a shocker.

Why is it dumb to have an interleague an interleague series every day?  Every other professional sport has this.  Never heard an NBA, NHL, or NFL fan complain.

The Yankees playing the same number of games vs Boston and Kansas City is no more dumb than the bogus-*** interleague rival crap that goes on right now.  The Yankees play the Mets 6 times the Red Sox played the Phillies.  The Cardinals played the Royals 6 times while the Cubs had to face the White Sox, and the White Sox' biggest rival, the Twins, played the small market Brewers 6 times.

The fact that mike calls somebody a tard when they have a different opinion than him is the furthest thing from a shocker of all times.  Since he is incapable of forming any argument without attacking the person making the argument it is senseless to argue with him.  He has the biggest internet punch-me face I've ever seen.