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From: pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Tigers baseball
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 01:21:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 01:21:32 1985
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Reply-To: pete@maryland.UUCP (Pete Cottrell)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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>Regardless of the merit of the rest of Roy's argument, AL East teams
>play MORE than one-half of their games against AL West opponents.
>That's because
>
>	(1) the AL doesn't believe in divisional play, and schedules
>	    the same number of games in an inter-divisional (e.g.
>	    Detroit-Texas) matchup as in an intra-divisional (e.g.
>	    Detroit-Milwaukee) one

It's not a question of believing in divisional play, it's just the
way the figures break down; incidentally, there are more games
scheduled in an intra-division rivalry than in an inter-division
(13 to 12) but the totals favor the inter-division (84 to 78).
I agree that there should be more intra-
than inter-divisional, but then the numbers get messy; the number of 
games to be played with the other divsion would not be divisable by
7, so teams would end up playing more games with some teams than with
others. I would rather keep things even. If the National League had
14 teams they would be in the same boat; 14 is just an awkward number.


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